Lawsuit Demonstrates What Employers and Employee Screening Firms Should Not Do
An opinion issued by the U.S. District Court in Northern District of Illinois in 2003 provides a case study on what an employer and screening firm should NOT do when it comes to employment background checks. According to the allegations filed in the case, the plaintiff was contacted by a major hotel and offered a position. [...]
Categories: Best Practices, Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Human Resources, Recent Posts Tags: background, check, complete, criminal, employee, employment
Lawsuits for use of Social Networking Sites for background Checks
2010 Trends in Screening–Trend Five: Lawsuits for Use of Social Networking Sites for Background Checks In past posts, Employment Screening Resources ( ESR) has labeled the use of the internet and social networking sites as a hot topic. In 2010 and onwards, it appears very likely that litigation over the use of these sites will be the hot [...]
Categories: Best Practices, Facebook, MySpace, Recent Posts, Social networking sites Tags: background, check, employment, national, online
Statistics and employment screening background checks
In an article on background checks posted on Workforce Management in January, 2010, it was suggested that “Employment and criminal checks also do little to screen out those who commit fraud.” The reason is that statistics from a 2008 report by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners based on 959 cases of workplace fraud showed [...]
Categories: Best Practices, Duty of Care, Recent Posts, Statistics Tags: background, check, criminal, employee, employment
2010 trend on criminal databases
2010 Trends in Screening–Trend Four: The battle over databases will continue – the latest wrinkle is the proliferation of cheap “do-it-yourself” websites and even Iphone apps An ongoing area of controversy in the screening industry is the use of commercially assembled national multi jurisdictional databases. These databases are complied from numerous sources that will sell or make [...]
Categories: Best Practices, Criminal Databases, Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Recent Posts, Trends Tags: background, check, complete, criminal, employment, national, online
The Unfair Use of Credit Reports and Criminal Records and the EEOC E-Race Initiative
According to an article in HR Morning, the two biggest headaches for employers when it comes to hiring are the blanket exclusion of individuals with poor credit histories or a criminal, record, and not showing a correlation between background checks and the job itself. The author notes that in response to seeing an increase in claims of [...]
Categories: Automated Decision Making, Best Practices, credit reports, Discrimination, EEOC, Recent Posts, Small and Medium Businesses, Trends Tags: background, check, criminal, employment, national
2010 Trend on more lawsuits including class action litigation over accuracy, privacy, and consumer rights
2010 Trends in Screening–Trend Two: Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a leading national online employment screening background firm, is releasing the ESR “Third Annual Top Ten Trends in the Pre-Employment Background Screening Industry” for 2010. This is the SECOND of the ten trends ESR will be tracking in 2010. The ten trends will be released over the next [...]
Categories: Best Practices, Class Action Lawsuits, Duty of Care, Recent Posts, Trends Tags: background, check, employment, national, online
2010 Trend on Increased focus on whether credit reports and criminal records are discriminatory
2010 Trends in Screening–Trend One: Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a leading national online employment screening background firm, is releasing the ESR “Third Annual Top Ten Trends in the Pre-Employment Background Screening Industry” for 2010. ESR has identified new trends that are starting to make a difference, as well as old trends that have evolved as the screening [...]
Categories: Best Practices, credit reports, Criminal Records, Discrimination, Recent Posts, Trends Tags: background, check, criminal, employment, national, online, public, safety, warrant
Employee Problems are Caused by Problem Employees
Problem employees usually cause employee problems. An employer is certainly ahead if they can try to minimize the problem employees in the first place by the use of pre-employment background screening.
Categories: Best Practices, due diligence, Duty of Care, ESR, Recent Posts Tags: background, check, employee, employment
Employment Screening Guidelines Released by Foremost Security Association
The second edition of the ASIS International Preemployment Background Screening (PBS) Guideline has been released to the public. ASIS is the preeminent organization for security management professionals worldwide. According to the press release: The guideline, designated ASIS GDL PBS-2009, is an educational and practical tool that organizations can use as a resource in understanding the reasons [...]
Categories: ASIS, Best Practices, ESR, Lester Rosen, Recent Posts Tags: background, employment, international, national, online, public
International Background checks
Did you know? Given the mobility of workers across international borders, an employer’s obligation of due diligence may no longer be limited to employment screening just in the United States. A 2000 government study shows that 11.5 percent of the population consists of immigrants, and an increasing number of workers have spent part of their [...]
Categories: Best Practices, due diligence, ESR, International Background Checks, Recent Posts, The Safe Hiring Manual Tags: background, check, company, criminal, employment, international, national