Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn A survey of over 1,500 employees and job seekers discovered that 84 percent of respondents are looking for, or are open to, a new job in the next six months, while over 60 percent of job seekers are unimpressed by time-consuming recruitment processes and are demanding companies…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released statistics from the FTC’s Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book 2021 that shows consumers reported losing more than $5.8 billion to fraud in 2021, an increase of more than 70 percent over the previous year, according to a press release from…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have announced that a background report provider and its chief executive officer (CEO) were banned from engaging in deceptive negative option marketing and would pay $21 million to resolve allegations that they used “teaser background reports”…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – a United States government agency that protects and educates consumers – is warning job seekers looking for employment to be aware of job scams, according to a blog entitled “Looking for a new job? Watch out for scams” written by FTC…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On November 10, 2021, the Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center launched the Fair Chance Licensing Project in an unprecedented effort to track fair chance licensing practices across all 50 United States to reduce barriers to employment for ex-offenders with criminal records and address the current talent…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn A record-high 4.3 million workers in the United States quit their jobs as part of the “Great Resignation” in August 2021, according to the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) report released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which represents the highest monthly total since…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn A survey of American workers by job seeker resource ResumeBuilder.com released in September 2021 revealed the “Great Resignation” that has caused a high number of voluntary “Quits” in 2021 is not over as 1 in 7 workers surveyed – approximately 15 percent of the workforce – said…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The Prison Policy Initiative has released a report entitled “Out of Prison & Out of Work” that calculates the unemployment rate for formerly incarcerated ex-offenders to be 27 percent, meaning that more than one out of four people who served time in prison and were released are…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On June 25, 2018, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper signed House Bill (HB) 774 which broadens the situations in which individuals convicted of a crime may petition for a “Certificate of Relief” and helps reduce the risks employers may face when hiring ex-offenders. HB 774 takes effect…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Employment Screening Resources® (ESR) – a background screening firm headquartered in the San Francisco, California area – “helps employers navigate the complex regulations around compliance and privacy laws, while providing resources and advocacy in helping ex-offenders find work,” according to a blog on BadCredit.org.
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