Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn With 2022 ending and 2023 fast approaching, Employment Screening Resources (ESR) – a service offering of ClearStar – has selected the most important stories about background checks during the year from the ESR News Blog. Here are the top 10 blogs about background checks in 2022 in the…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn Attorney Lester S. Rosen, the founder of Employment Screening Resources (ESR) and the author of “The Safe Hiring Manual,” will present a live in-person session at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Talent Conference & Expo 2023 taking place in Orlando, Florida, and virtually from April 16th…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On December 20, 2022, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors passed the Wilma Chan Fair Chance Housing Ordinance that “prohibits public and private property owners from using a criminal background check when evaluating an applicant for rental housing in unincorporated parts of the county,” LocalNewsMatters.org reports. The Ordinance…
Written by Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn In the spirit of the holiday season, here are the results of an imaginary background check of Santa Claus to ensure he is qualified for his important job at Christmas. The background check includes Santa’s alias names, address history, work history, driving history, and criminal history (he does…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn Nearly half of workers in the United States – 46% – are currently looking or plan to look for a new job in the first half of 2023, a figure that is up from 41% six months ago, according to a biannual Job Optimism Survey of more than…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn An incoming elected member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of New York “may have misrepresented parts of his resume” that dealt with his education and employment history, according to a review of his public statements by CNN that cited details from an initial…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On December 19, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it secured agreements requiring a video game maker to pay $520 million in relief over allegations the company violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and deployed “dark patterns” to trick players into making unintentional purchases. According…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On December 13, 2022, the father of a 7-year-old girl allegedly kidnapped and killed by a contracted delivery driver filed a lawsuit seeking more than $1 million in damages and a jury trial against the driver, the delivery service, and the contractor that hired the driver, according to…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On December 13, 2022, the European Commission issued a draft adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework which will foster trans-Atlantic data transfers between the European Union (EU) and the United States (U.S.) by ensuring an adequate level of protection for personal data, the Commission announced. With the…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn Early on December 15, 2022, the Ohio House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 288 which includes “changes that would make it easier to expunge criminal records” to “reduce the burden on previously incarcerated Ohioans and reduce the likelihood that they return to prison, according to a report from The…
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