Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn In December of 2019, a federal judge in Pennsylvania gave final approval for a settlement of a class action lawsuit for $562,500 against a “company accused of providing prospective employers with inaccurate criminal background checks,” according to a report on PennLive.com. PennLive.com reports that U.S. Middle District…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On December 10, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) held a free public workshop on Accuracy in Consumer Reporting that examined issues affecting the accuracy of traditional credit reports and background screening reports. A video recording of the workshop is…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On November 22, 2019, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) – an agency enforcing federal consumer financial laws – filed a proposed Stipulated Final Judgment and Order that will require a background screening company to pay $6 million in monetary relief and a $2.5 million civil money…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn With the vast majority of employers in the United States conducting some type of background check on job applicants, these applicants undergoing background checks to find work need to know that they are granted many important rights during this process under a federal law called the Fair…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On September 23, 2019, a District Court in Virginia granted a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit where the plaintiffs – applicants who applied for jobs with Wells Fargo between August 17, 2012, and April 10, 2015 – claimed the defendant, a Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA)…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On October 18, 2019, a California federal judge decertified a class of approximately 6,547,400 applicants in a class action lawsuit against Walmart that claimed the retail giant procured background checks using disclosure forms that violated the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), finding the plaintiffs failed to…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On August 9, 2019, a ruling in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia found that a background check for independent contractors does not trigger the protections applicable for a background check for “employment purposes” under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Employers have paid out $174 million over the past decade to settle class action lawsuits that claim they violated the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) that governs the use of background checks on job applicants, according to a blog examining a compilation of court records assembled…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On May 30, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a decision in the case of Kidd v. Thomson Reuters Corporation that affirmed the ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that the defendant Thomson Reuters…
Written By ESR News Editor Thomas Ahearn On May 14, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in a lawsuit filed by a consumer against a consumer reporting agency (CRA) that the seven-year measuring period for criminal charges under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) rule that prohibits CRAs…
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