We would like to emphasize the importance of organizations continuing to monitor dangerous behavior after people are in your organization. This monitoring can take the form of criminal conviction searches and motor vehicle record reports, if your employee is operating motor vehicles while in your organization. Recently CNN found dozens of theme park employees — […]
Social Media in the Recruitment Process
Guess you can say that Social media is here to stay, right? Social media has worked its way into a tool to attract individuals and a tool for investigating the background of individuals. If you do use it to recruit, you must make sure the contents of your advertisements conform to all types of regulations. […]
Have drug test positivity rates increased or decreased?
Quest Diagnostics just recently released its analysis of 7.6 million drug tests. Workforce drug test positivity rates have increased for the first time in 10 years. Marijuana and amphetamines account for a large part of the increase. “After years of declines, the prevalence of positive workforce drug tests is increasing,” said Dr. Barry Sample, director, […]
Kaplan defeats EEOC discrimination lawsuit. But why did Kaplan win?
On April 9, 2014, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment in the case of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) v. Kaplan Higher Education Corporation, et al. The EEOC brought suit against Kaplan claiming that its practice of using credit checks during the hiring process had a disparate impact on minority classes. However, […]
Think You Don’t have Substance Abusers in Your Organization?
I urge you to re-think your assumption. A recently issued report from SAMHSA proves the existence of many substance abusers in our population. Even scarier is that a large portion of them are employed either full time or part time. Maybe they are in your organization? Current illegal drug users need never have the opportunity […]
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