Criminal History
Considering Background Check Companies: Errors and Lawsuits
About 95 percent of all hiring employers conduct background checks in some form on applicants. As you’re aware, these screenings vary in scope, from local criminal history investigations to through research into an individual’s employment and educational history. Yet, while businesses depend on such companies to provide inside information about a candidate, how accurate are…
Read MoreWhen It Comes to Background Checks, How Far Can Employers Go?
Roughly over a month ago, the EEOC revised and clarified its recommendations and standards for background checks. Yet, as NPR pointed out this week, even the new standards don’t pose enough limits on employers. The potential results are companies delving too far into a search, potential employees being excluded from too many opportunities, and criminal…
Read MoreDifferent Background Checks, Different Results
On many occasions, we talk about the disparity in results from a state-level background check and with those from a national one. Education and employment history aside, state-level background checks do not always give a full picture of an individual’s criminal history. On a basic level, such a background check may only examine criminal records…
Read MoreBackground Checks for Ice Cream Truck Drivers?
Certain states require background checks for employees that work directly with the most vulnerable citizens: children, the elderly, and the disabled. Such background checks are de rigueur for teachers, daycare workers, home healthcare workers, nurses, and aides. But ice cream truck workers? Such a bill was introduced recently in Iowa and passed in the state…
Read MoreUse of Background Checks in Gun Shows and Control Not Thorough Enough
Requiring background checks for gun shows needs to start on the state level, and recently Arizona proposed a bill that would require background checks before purchasing a firearm at a gun show.
Read MoreNational Child Protection Act
The National Child Protection Act was amended recently to include more detailed information about background checks and working with children.
Read MoreBackground Checks for School Volunteers
Should school volunteers be subject to background checks? Essentially, anyone working with the public, especially children, should have a basic background check done.
Read MoreBackground Checks Preventing Criminals from Volunteer Positions
While the news often shows companies not doing thorough background checks, others, such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, caught a criminal with their extensive background check.
Read MoreBackground Checks for Volunteer Workers
Background checks are often a part of most application processes for full-time workers, but should they be required of volunteers when volunteers are doing job-like functions, such as working in a town fire department?
Read MoreWhen and Why Important Information Doesn’t Show Up on a Background Check
In some cases, a criminal history, even including an accidental death, can be wiped from someone’s criminal background check.
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