Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn The “National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2023” includes Section 5705 titled “Fair Hiring in Banking” which will ease restrictions on financial institutions hiring candidates with criminal records by lessening convictions that prevent employment under Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). Section 19…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn To help employers learn the various best practices used to select the best candidates. Attorney Lester Rosen, author of “The Safe Hiring Manual” and founder of Employment Screening Resources (ESR), will present a live webinar titled “Looking Beyond the Resume: Creative Candidate Screening” on Thursday, March 30, 2023. Employers…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – America’s consumer protection agency – will mark its annual Identity Theft Awareness Week with a series of free events focused on how identity theft affects people and ways to reduce risk from Monday, January 30, 2023, to Friday, February 3, 2023, according…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn In January 2023, the White House announced new actions to increase fairness in the rental market that align with its “Blueprint for a Renters Bill of Rights” that the Biden-Harris Administration simultaneously released to, among other things, ensure tenant background checks are legal, fair, and non-discriminatory. The Blueprint…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn In December 2022, the City of Gainesville in Florida passed a “Ban the Box” law that took effect upon signature called the “Fair Chance Hiring” Ordinance to prohibit questions by employers with 15 or more employees about the criminal history of applicants during the application process until after…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On January 23, 2023, the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) announced the program for the 2023 Data Privacy Week campaign that will take place from January 22 to 28, 2023, to continue to raise awareness about the importance of digital privacy for consumers and businesses, according to a news…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn The Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA) – a non-profit trade organization that represents the background screening industry – has scheduled the 2023 Mid-Year Legislative & Regulatory Conference to be an in-person event only at the Crystal Gateway Marriot in Arlington, Virginia, from April 16th to 18th, 2023. “If…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On January 18, 2023, the University of Arizona (UA) announced that all of its approximately 2,800 graduate assistants will be required to undergo a criminal background check before they can start work after a former graduate assistant allegedly shot and killed a professor on campus, according to a…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has released the Fall 2022 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions for administrative agencies such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that includes the CFPB’s 2023 regulatory agenda which reveals the…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn An innocent woman who was falsely arrested for a robbery in Texas in a case of “mistaken identity” when police thought a surveillance photo of a suspect with the same name looked like social media images of her has spent a week in jail in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, according…
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