Calling prior employers makes sense for a number of reasons. Often we hear the question “Why call prior employers? All we get is name and employment dates. Let’s review some good reasons to verify In general, we believe people will behave for their current employer, maybe your firm, as they have behaved in the past […]

Some clients send their employees to work on their client’s premises. This happens most frequently with defense contractors who send their employees to government agencies. Typically, the government agency will be able to do a fingerprint record search. Then, our clients are told they have to remove their employee because the FBI fingerprint record search […]

What effect does recidivism have on your background check policy? First let’s define recidivism. Recidivism is the likelihood that someone who broke the law and was convicted once, will do it again after being set free. When you are hiring someone for your firm, you want to be as sure as possible that the individual […]

What is your Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA) doing with criminal conviction records discovered in a database search? A CRA has two options under the Fair Credit Reporting Act(FCRA). https://www.preemploymentscreen.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Fair-Credit-Reporting-Act-FTC-Federal-Trade-Commission.pdf   15 U.S.C. § 1681k(a) provides as follows: A consumer reporting agency which furnishes a consumer report for employment purposes and which for that purpose compiles […]

California recently passed a bill preventing employers from inquiring about salary history. Did you know there are other jurisdictions with laws about confirming salary history?  This law would become effective January 1, 2018. This bill would prohibit an employer from relying on the salary history information of an applicant for employment as a factor in […]