Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Legislation introduced in Congress in 2017 – “Legal Workforce Act” (H.R. 3711) – hopes to make the E-Verify electronic employment eligibility verification system a “mandatory and permanent” requirement for U.S. employers to ensure the workers they hire are legally eligible to work in the United States. This move toward the…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Employment Screening Resources® (ESR) – a leading global background check provider – will release the 11th annual “ESR Top Ten Background Check Trends” of 2018 that features emerging and influential trends in the background screening industry for the coming year during December of 2017. The complete list of trends…
Written By Employment Screening Resources (ESR) Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), a leading global background check firm headquartered in the San Francisco Bay area, announced today that Kirk Bogue has joined the company as Vice President of Operations with overall responsibility for ESR’s operations and client services.
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On August 15, 2017, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Appeals Court ruled in the case of Robins v. Spokeo on remand from the Supreme Court of the United States that a man who claimed an online “people search engine” violated the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) by providing…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn To help calm nerves job applicants have about background checks done by employers, an article on job website Monster.com – “Employment background check guide for job applicants” – compared common fears against the facts and featured background check experts such as Dawn Standerwick, Chair of the Board of…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Attorney Lester Rosen, founder and CEO of global background check firm Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), will present a webinar for Clear Law Institute – “Dealing with Employees Charged with a Crime” – on Thursday, July 27, 2017, from 3:00 PM to 4:15 PM ET. To register for this…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Attorney Lester S. Rosen, founder and CEO of global background check firm Employment Screening Resources® (ESR) and author of “The Safe Hiring Manual,” will present a webinar for Business & Legal Resources (BLR) entitled “Ban the Box and Background Checks Update: How to Effectively Pre-Screen Prospective Job Candidates and…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Brad Landin, president and chief compliance officer (CCO) at Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), a global background check firm headquartered in Novato, California, will speak at a Marin County Employer Advisory Council (EAC) event entitled “Documenting the Employer Employee Relationship and Pre-employment Inquiries” on Wednesday, July 19, 2017. To…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn California employers should be aware of the “California Fair Employment & Housing Council (FEHC) Consideration of Criminal History in Employment Decisions Regulations” that restrict the use of criminal records by employers in hiring and other employment decisions that took effect on July 1, 2017, according to an article posted on…
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