Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn In July 2022, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) released a report titled “Indicators of Workplace Violence, 2019” which provides findings on fatal and nonfatal crimes that occurred in the workplace or…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn More than nine in ten healthcare workers – 92 percent – have experienced, or been in close proximity to, workplace violence from a patient or a patient’s caregiver in the past month, while three in four have encountered both verbal and physical assaults, according to a survey…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn In the latest tragic case of workplace violence, officials reported the suspect in a shooting that killed one person at a Kroger grocery store in Collierville, Tennessee, was asked to leave his job as a “third-party vendor” working inside the store on the morning of the incident,…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Employment Screening Resources® (ESR) has issued a white paper entitled “Workplace Violence and Human Resources: A Brief Introduction” written by ESR founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Attorney Lester Rosen to highlight action items Human Resources (HR) and employers may consider to help prevent workplace violence. “With…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have announced an extension of the flexibilities in rules related to Form I-9 compliance due to the COVID-19 pandemic – which were set to expire on August 31, 2021 – to December…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Attorney Lester Rosen, founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), has published an article titled “Workplace Violence and Human Resources: A Brief Introduction” to highlight action items Human Resources (HR) and employers may consider to help prevent workplace violence. “With horrendous incidents of…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) – which operates bus and light rail services in the Santa Clara Valley – has released documents that revealed an employee who committed a mass shooting in San Jose, California, on May 26, 2021, that killed nine co-workers in a case of…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn A mass shooting at a light rail yard in San Jose, California, by a Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) employee that took the lives of nine co-workers on May 26, 2021, in yet another tragic case of workplace violence is “the latest in a spate of shootings that…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn A report released in September of 2019 by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) – the world’s largest HR professional society – revealed that one in five Americans has left a job in the past five years due to a “toxic workplace culture” with the turnover…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn A veteran city engineer who shot and killed 12 people at an office in Virginia Beach, Virginia where he worked for years “resigned the morning of the attack” in the latest case of workplace violence that has plagued employers and employees in the recent past, according to…
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