Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn A survey of over 1,500 employees and job seekers discovered that 84 percent of respondents are looking for, or are open to, a new job in the next six months, while over 60 percent of job seekers are unimpressed by time-consuming recruitment processes and are demanding companies…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The United States economy added 678,000 jobs and the unemployment rate dropped to 3.8 percent in February 2022, according to the jobs report for February 2022 released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Job gains occurred the most in leisure and hospitality, professional and business services,…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On March 1, 2022, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated its guidance about “What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws” by adding several questions about religious objections employees may have to COVID-19 vaccine requirements under Title VII…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On February 27, 2022, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) issued a proposal in the Federal Register on “Procedures for Transportation Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing Programs: Addition of Oral Fluid Specimen Testing for Drugs” to add oral fluid testing to the existing urine drug testing for…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse (Clearinghouse) – an online database that gives employers and government agencies real-time access to information about holders of commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) and commercial learner’s permits (CLPs) who are covered by Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) Drug and Alcohol Testing Program…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Claims against a trucking company for negligent entrustment, hiring, or retention may seek and may result in increased compensatory damages, punitive damages, expanded discovery, and evidentiary and admissibility advantages for the plaintiff. Motor carriers should perform reasonable investigations into all employees to ensure that an individual’s past…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released statistics from the FTC’s Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book 2021 that shows consumers reported losing more than $5.8 billion to fraud in 2021, an increase of more than 70 percent over the previous year, according to a press release from…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On February 15, 2022, Rhode Island Senate Bill 2371 (S 2371) was introduced to require any person who is an owner, officer, director, manager, or employee of any of the licensed marijuana industry establishments in the state to submit to a national criminal background check that would…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On February 17, 2022, California Senate Bill 1262 (SB 1262) was introduced by Senator Steven Bradford (D-35th District) to require publicly accessible electronic indexes of defendants in criminal cases to permit searches and filtering of results based on a defendant’s driver’s license number or date of birth,…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On February 17, 2022, California Assembly Bill 2383 was introduced to make it a discriminatory housing practice for the owner of rental housing to inquire about – or require an applicant for rental housing to disclose – a criminal record during the initial application assessment phase unless…
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