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Background Checks
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U.S. Legal Insights for French Businesses
Hiring Personnel in New York: Dos and Don’ts – Part 1
By Karl Buhler, Lindsay Colvin Stone
Part I: Advertising and Interviewing Foreign companies expanding their operations to the U.S. through New York usually handle their U.S. hiring process like the way they do back in their home…
Hiring To Firing Law Blog
Employers Must Utilize New Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) Summary of Rights Form
By Lee Tankle
Q: My company uses a third-party vendor to conduct background checks on prospective employees. We heard there is a new model for the “A Summary of Your Rights Under the…
Class Action Countermeasures
Seventh Circuit Allies With FCRA Class Action Plaintiffs on Spokeo Grounds.
Below, Richmond-based litigators Bryan A. Fratkin and Heidi E. Siegmund examine the Seventh Circuit's recent holding that an employment applicant's missed opportunity to address a background check constitutes sufficient injury…
Employment Law Business Guide
Time to Update Those Background Check Notices
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) has issued a new notice to be issued to applicants and employees who will be subject to background checks. Employers should begin using the…
Employment Law Letter
Background Check Requirements Can Cause Problems If Not Followed
By Gary S. Starr, Henry J. Zaccardi
Attention to detail makes a big difference when employers are required by law to do specific things. The failure to meet all the requirements of a statute can result in…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
New Compliance Requirements for FCRA Background Checks
By Cullan E. Jones, Robert T. Quackenboss
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a new “A Summary of Your Rights Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act” form on September 12, 2018. This form replaces the previous version…
California Employment Law Update
September 2018 California Employment Law Notes
By Tony Oncidi
We invite you to review our newly-posted September 2018 California Employment Law Notes, a comprehensive review of the latest and most significant developments in California employment law. The highlights include: Employer Must…
California Employment Law Update
Employer Must Obtain Written Authorization To Conduct Background Check
By Tony Oncidi
Connor v. First Student, Inc., 2018 WL 3966434 (Cal. S. Ct. 2018) Eileen Connor worked as a school bus driver for Laidlaw Education Services, a company that was later acquired…
Employment Privacy Blog
Are You Carefully Vetting Your Third Party Vendors? If Not, You May Be Buying Yourself a Breach of Privacy Claim
Are You Carefully Vetting Your Third Party Vendors? If Not, You May Be Buying Yourself a Breach of Privacy Claim Our client, we’ll call them Company X, provides installation,…
The Employer Report
California Supreme Court Pro-Employee Ruling Affirms Employer Duty To Comply With Overlapping Background Check Laws
Last month the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of a class of 1,400 student bus drivers who sued their employer for failing to comply with state background check laws.…