Clients’ express frustration with California’s background check limitations. It is frustrating for us and our court researchers trying to perform criminal conviction searches and return results on a timely basis. This article lists the limitations and is summarized below. We encourage you to visit the article and read the entire article. We are posting this […]

Understanding the adverse action process is crucial PARTICULARLY if you use a consumer reporting agency to receive background investigations or verification of information on the application e.g. prior employment, education, license etc. This is a summary of an article from JDSupra with our comments included. You’ve gone through the hiring process, sent out an offer […]

Recently the FTC issued guidance on what businesses should know about the Fair Credit Reporting Act and Social Media. You have some job openings at your company or maybe you’re thinking of promoting people to new positions. You’ve winnowed that stack of resumes down to some promising candidates. Now it’s nitty gritty time: background checks. […]

Should employers be concerned about false references? False references on an application should be a grave concern of employers. We believe that most people will behave in your employment as they have behaved for previous employers.  Even more egregious is the act of falsifying your employment application documents. If an individual falsifies your company documents […]

According to a lawsuit filed by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the company’s criminal screening process resulted in discrimination in the hiring process. In the lawsuit there is a distinction made between the “intent” to discriminate, and the fact that their process resulted in discrimination. The purpose of this blog post is to inform […]