Navigating Vaccine Management Platform Challenges for HR Leaders

Many Americans have awaited the day the country could reopen and welcome workers back to in-person environments safely. The Covid-19 vaccine roll-out has brought us closer than ever. But some companies are wondering how they can legally monitor their employees’ vaccination status. There are many ways to collect vaccination data from your workforce, but today…

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How COVID-19 Is Influencing Background Check Laws by State

Amongst the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses had to evolve to changing global conditions and new regulations quickly. Office closures affected more than your company but all of them. Closures include government offices and courthouses, most of which have been operating on closed or limited schedules. Many activities like parole hearings or legal proceedings are postponed or…

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Home Care & Background Checks

  There is hope that a new law in one state will help protect seniors from the unregulated areas of the home health care industry. The new law in Arizona requires non-medical in-home caregiver agencies to disclose information to consumers about background checks, training, cost of service and hiring and firing policies. This supply of…

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Foster Parents and Background Checks

We are looking at another example of the wide-ranging impact of background checks. This time it involves Native American children who are waiting for foster parents. The pool of eligible parents will be subject to background checks. It’s the result of the Native American Children’s Safety Act passed through Congress in June. The bill requires…

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Unpaid Workers & Background Checks

  Here’s another example of how background checks are used beyond the usual job screening process. A school district in Pennsylvania has approved guidelines requiring background checks for school volunteers. We’ve been down this road before. This is just another view of how background checks have become a crucial part of job screening, even when…

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Tribal Land and Background Checks

  As the sun rises on 2015, we look back on news from late 2014 and how it’s impacting background checks. In this case, we’re looking at how the FBI is treating background checks for gun sales on sovereign Indian reservations. The FBI is expanding how those background checks are handled. It’s part of the…

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Background Checks for School Bus Drivers

Something new is taking place for school bus drivers in one area of the country. They will soon have to undergo background checks. It’s happening in Aiken County, South Carolina. Public school officials say potential school bus drivers will be subject to driving and criminal history checks. This comes in the wake of several DUI…

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Firefighter Background Checks

The impact of background checks is making news in New York. Earlier this month, the governor of New York signed legislation into law that beefs up the vetting process for volunteer firefighter organizations. What this basically means is this: Firefighters in New York will face stricter background checks. Applicants for volunteer firefighter positions will have…

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Background Checks and Cyber-attacks

  Even background checks can be impacted by hackers. It was announced last week that two U.S. federal agencies have stopped background checks with a contractor after the contractor announced its networks had been breached in a cyber-attack. Apparently, the attack originated in a country outside the U.S. It’s unclear how much government employee information…

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