Adverse Action Letters under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and Employment Screening Background Checks
By Lester Rosen, ESR President From the ESR mail box: Here is a frequently asked question dealing with the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and the pre-adverse and post-adverse action notices. Suppose an employer has two finalists for one position. The employer submits both names for background checks and both candidates have clear background reports. The [...]
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New Case Demonstrates How the Details are Everything if Taking Adverse Action on a Current Employee Due to a Background Check
By Les Rosen, President of ESR A new federal district court case demonstrates the importance of handling the adverse action process correctly when terminating an existing employee due to an unsatisfactory background check. In the case decided on February 26, 2010 by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17373), [...]
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