Topic
Background Checks
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World of Employment
Employer Asks Applicants for Facebook, MySpace Passwords
Besides asking about applicants' educational history and employment background, the City of Bozeman, Montana is also asking job applicants for their usernames and passwords for social networking websites such as…
Aaron Morris' Business Law Alert
City Requests Social Site Information from Applicants
By Aaron Morris
It’s long been the case that employers check out the social websites of potential applicants to see the real nature of the people they are considering hiring. But trying to…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
LexBlog Law Network Roundup – 6/17/09
It's become common knowledge that employers are wary of what potential hires might have on various social networks so they may include those in their background checks. The city of…
Alabama Employment Law Report
CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS AND THE HIRING PROCESS
Recently, one of my partners, David Mellon, presented a talk entitled "Background Checks & Title VII: Discriination Lurking in the Shadows". When a criminal background check is provided to an employer by…
Rush on Business
Guest Blogger: Mike Colwell of BIZ on Background Checks
By Rush Nigut
This is a guest post from Mike Colwell, Executive Director of the Business Innovation Zone (BIZ). Why bother doing a background check on a potential employee? Well, not too long…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Quick Takes: Background Checks, Increased DOL Audits, ARRA’s Whistleblower Provisions, H1-B Visa Rules for TARP Recipients, Salary Basis Test
It's FINALLY a nice spring day outside in Connecticut (see the picture of the Connecticut River taken this morning) so no need to spend a minute more than necessary to catch…
Employment Law Watch
New Legislation Modifying New York Law Governing Use of Criminal Background Checks in Employment Taking Effect; Posting Date February 1, 2009
By Sherri A. Affrunti, E. David Krulewicz
Responding in part to a 2007 study which found that New York employees were largely unfamiliar with State laws regulating an employer’s use of past convictions for employment-related decisions and…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Privacy lawsuit brought against sex offender background checks in schools
Main December 2, 2008Privacy lawsuit brought against sex offender background checks in schoolsThis summer I blogged here about a notable new technology that some school systems have started using to…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Criminal Convictions and Disparate Impact
According to Trading Markets.com, an applicant to work at Madison Square Garden has filed a charge with the EEOC, arguing that MSG's use of criminal histories in making employment decisions…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Background Checks as Big Business, But How Accurate are They?
BusinessWeek has an in-depth article this week on business checks and the accuracy of those records. Its a thought-provoking article that suggests that background checks are a "Wild Wild West"…