By Lester Rosen, Founder & CEO of Employment Screening Resources (ESR) Employers have become very aware of the high costs of workers’ compensation claims. The loss to American business from both fraudulent claims and re-injury causes many employers to want to know whether a job applicant has a history of filing workers’ compensation claims. At…
By Les Rosen, Employment Screening Resources The recent headlines dealing with background checks demonstrate that to some extent, Americans are conflicted about the whole topic of background checks. On one hand, as reported in past blogs by Employment Screening Resources (ESR), discrimination and privacy advocates feel that background checks are too intrusive and unfair. The…
By Les Rosen, Employment Screening Resources Most authorities agree that any information tending to reveal a job applicant’s age should not be requested on an employer application form or during an oral interview. Asking for date of birth during the selection process could violate the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 as well…
By Jared Callahan, Employment Screening Resources According to an article in HR Morning, the two biggest headaches for employers when it comes to hiring are the blanket  exclusion of individuals with poor credit histories or a criminal, record, and not showing a correlation between background checks and the job itself. The author notes that in response…
By Les Rosen, Employment Screening Resources 2010 Trends in Screening–Trend One: Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a leading national online employment screening background firm, is releasing the ESR “Third Annual Top Ten Trends in the Pre-Employment Background Screening Industry” for 2010. ESR has identified new trends that are starting to make a difference, as well as old…
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced on October 1, 2009 that they have filed a lawsuit against Freeman, a firm that offers nationwide convention services, on the basis that it used credit reports and criminal records to unfairly discriminate against black, Hispanic and male job applicants.   This case has the potential to have a…
Searching for criminal records is much more complicated than it appears on the surface. Contrary to popular belief, there is no central database available to most private employers to instantly find a person’s criminal record at one touch. The FBI database is only available to employers that are legally authorized to submit fingerprints, the readouts…
As ESR has noted in numerous presentations on the use of social networking sites, such as Facebook or MySpace for employment, this is an evolving area of law that is still waiting for lawsuits to wind their ways through courts resulting in published judicial opinions.
RecruitingTrends, a leading website for recruitment and talent management by KennedyInfo, has published a column by ESR president Lester Rosen on, “Credit Reports and Employment: Myths and Facts.â€Â The article covers myths and reality on credit reports, and is a how-to guide for recruiters and employers on the topic. It also has helpful information for…
 Security Management, the publication of ASIS, the leading international security organization, featured an article on Background Checks by Lester Rosen, President of Employment Screening Resources (ESR) in the May, 2009 edition. The article is entitled: “How to Avoid Hiring Mishaps,” and covers recent cases, trends, new developments and best practices when it comes to pre-employment…
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