Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – a federal agency that enforces workplace anti-discrimination laws – has updated its “Pandemic Preparedness in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act” guidance that was created during the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic to clarify exactly how the…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn “Compliance will be front and center for organizations that conduct pre-employment background checks in 2020,” according to an article about “3 Employment Screening Trends to Know Before You Hire in 2020” that is available on the website of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). For the…
Written By ESR News Editor Thomas Ahearn Being well versed in the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and numerous state and local laws for background checks to ensure employers remain in legal compliance is essential for background screening companies accredited by the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS). The NAPBS, a non-profit trade…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Attorney Lester Rosen, founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of leading global background check firm Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), will present a live webinar entitled “Background Checks: Best Practices, Trends, and Legal Compliance” for Aurora Training Advantage on Friday, January 25, 2019, from 11:00 AM to 12:30 AM…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On September 12, 2018, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) – also known as the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (BCFP) and the United States government agency responsible for consumer protection in the financial sector – issued an interim final rule updating two model disclosures to reflect…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On September 12, 2018, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) – the United States government agency responsible for consumer protection in the financial sector – issued an interim final rule to be effective on September 21, 2018, that requires a new notice of rights to be included…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Background check firms are focused on making candidate screening – sometimes considered the most stressful aspect of the recruiting process – as painless as possible, according to a background check expert interviewed in the ‘Sector Report: Navigating the Patchwork of Screening Regulations’ available on Workforce.com.
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Leading global background check firm Employment Screening Resources (ESR) will co-sponsor a webinar entitled “Managing Form I-9 Compliance in an Era of Enhanced Workforce Enforcement” presented by HR software technology company EMP Trust and featuring speaker and author Gloria Aitken, an analyst with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Safe hiring expert Attorney Lester Rosen, founder and CEO of Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), will present a live webinar sponsored by Clear Law Institute entitled “Practical Steps Employers Should Take to Comply with the EEOC Criminal Record Guidance” on Tuesday, December 19, 2017, from 1:00 PM to 2:15…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn California employers should revise employment policies and practices to comply with “new laws regulating the hiring and recruiting process, expanding parental leave rights, requiring changes to mandated harassment training, and limiting employers’ ability to cooperate with federal immigration agencies” before January 1, 2018, according to labor and employment…
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