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 8, 2022, the mother of a 7-year-old girl allegedly kidnapped and killed by a contracted delivery driver who was delivering a package called for a private investigation into hiring practices of the delivery service that allowed the driver to be hired, according to a report…
Written By Employment Screening Resources® (ESR) “Gig economy” businesses that use online applications or “apps” to facilitate on-demand services for consumers that are provided by relative strangers in an extended workforce will continue to try to build trust with consumers through their background screening programs, according to the “ESR Top Ten Background Check Trends” for…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Since retailers and shippers traditionally hire seasonal workers to fulfill the demands of holiday shoppers whether they are online or in person, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) is offering job seekers some tips to make the seasonal job hunt more successful while “watching out for a job…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Attorney Lester Rosen, the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of leading global background check firm Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), participated in a podcast titled “Background Checks and Beyond” hosted by Elle Tucker of the Marketplace Risk Platform Podcast to talk about screening for the “gig economy.”…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn “Gig economy” businesses that provide transportation, housing, repairs, delivery, and many other services on demand through software applications (“apps”) will take background checks of workers more seriously with ongoing monitoring and continuous screening in 2020, according to the “ESR Top Ten Background Check Trends” for 2020 compiled…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On January 7, 2020, Representative Mike Caruso (R-89th District) filed the “Evy Udell Public Safety Act” (House Bill 1129) in the Florida House of Representatives that would require all home delivery workers to undergo background checks. The bill is named for a woman who police say was…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On November 2, 2019, Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and Head of Community of Airbnb – an online marketplace for arranging or offering lodging – announced in several tweets on Twitter that Airbnb would ban “party houses” and expand screening in response to a shooting…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn A restaurant owner in Las Vegas, Nevada, has filed a negligent hiring lawsuit against DoorDash claiming that he was allegedly stabbed by a driver working for the on-demand food delivery service who was “a felon with a history of violence and mental illness,” according to a report…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Background checks of deliverymen are being examined more closely following the brutal murder of an elderly woman in Boca Raton, Florida, in her own home during the delivery of her new washer and dryer, an attack that has “called into question the trustworthiness of deliverymen and workers…
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