Topic
Background Checks
559 published works
Consumer Finance Monitor
FTC provides guidance on FCRA requirements for employer background checks
When examining banks and companies subject to CFPB supervisory authority for FCRA compliance, CFPB examiners will look at whether the bank or company has followed FCRA requirements for use of…
California Employment Law Update
Background Check Law Is Not Unconstitutionally Vague
By Tony Oncidi
Connor v. First Student, Inc., 2015 WL 4768123 (Cal. Ct. App. 2015) Eileen Connor worked as a school bus driver for Laidlaw Education Services. After First Student acquired Laidlaw, it…
California Workplace Law Blog
Constitutional Challenge to California’s Background Check Law Rejected
If a background check includes information about a job applicant’s character, California’s background check law applies, the California Court of Appeal has held, rejecting an employer’s challenge to the California…
The Right Coast
Uber background check civil suit – Business Insider
Because of flaws in Uber's background-checking system, 25 drivers with criminal records including murder, child abuse, and assault were allowed to drive for the ride-hailing service in San Francisco and Los Angeles,…
Workforce Compliance Insights
California’s ICRAA is NOT Unconstitutionally Vague
An appeals court in California recently held that California’s Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act (ICRAA) is not unconstitutionally vague. (Connor v. First Student, Inc., et al., Cal. Court of Appeal,…
World of Employment
California Court Limits Defenses Available to Employers Requesting Employee Background Checks
Background checks can provide California employers with vital information concerning their employees. In order to protect individual privacy rights, however, the California legislature has created two separate laws governing the…
Minnesota Employer
Can Employers Require Job Applicants To Pay For the Costs Of Background Checks?
Generally no - Minnesota law provides that, unless specifically authorized by law, no employer or prospective employer may “require an employee or prospective employee to pay for expenses incurred in…
International Labor and Employment Law
What U.S. Multinational Employers Need to Know about Background Checks
By David Reid, Daniel Saperstein
Employers often run background checks on their applicants and employees in order to protect the workplace and to assemble a good and trustworthy workforce. For U.S.-based employers with operations overseas,…
Pennsylvania Labor & Employment Blog
Amendments Clarify Employers’ Background Check Obligations Under Pennsylvania Law
By Kathleen Duffy Bruder, Kelley Kaufman
On July 1, 2015, Governor Tom Wolf signed into law Act 15 (House Bill 1276), which amends Pennsylvania's Child Protective Services Law (CPSL) to clarify the requirements of employers and…
Law and the Workplace
Georgia Enacts “Mini”-FCRA
By Daniel Saperstein, Katharine Parker
For more than four decades, the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) has regulated consumer reporting agencies (“CRAs”) that furnish consumer reports (i.e., background checks) to third parties such as…