Topic
Background Checks
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Lancaster Law Blog
Employment Screening and Background Checks – Part II
Newspaper headlines are replete with cases of embezzlement by employees and violence in the workplace. Government statistics note alarming trends for increases in criminal activity at the workplace. To stem this tide,…
Labor Law Prof Blog
More Background Checks, More Diversity?
So says this new piece in the Journal of Law and Economics and highlighted today at HR.BLR.com. According to the article:Employers that perform criminal backgroundchecks generally hire more black workers…
Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer
Expunged (But Not Forgotten)…
Within today’s New York Times most emailed articles is this gem: Expunged Criminal Records Live to Tell Tales. It chronicles the difficulties folks have when facing an employer armed with a…
TortsProf Blog
Requiring Background Checks for Social Sites
A FindLaw column addresses the various challenges to and problems with any statutory or regulatory requirement that dating or other social networking websites perform background checks. This -- and issues…
Rush on Business
Conduct Free Background Checks Using Iowa Courts Online Web Site
By Rush Nigut
Conduct Free Background Checks Using Iowa Courts Online Web Site You can conduct a free background check of prospective employees by accessing the Iowa Courts Online Web Site. You should…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
We Don’t Need No Stinking Criminal Background Checks
By Ellen Podgor
From fellow LawProg blog CrimProf comes a link (here) to a story from Newsweek (here) about how TIAA-CREF hired one Sonia Radencovich for a tech position without checking her background. …
California Employment Law Update
Employer Did Not Violate Consumer Reporting Agencies Act
By Tony Oncidi
Moran v. Murtaugh, Miller, Meyer & Nelson, 126 Cal. App. 4th 323 (2005) Gene Moran was hired as a paralegal by the Murtaugh, Miller law firm. Shortly thereafter, one of…
New Jersey Law Blog
Expungement
The expungement process is available to residents and/or non-residents of the State of New Jersey and an individual may expunge one or more petty disorderly persons offenses and/or indictable offenses…
Tom Mighell
The dangers of too much knowledge
By Tom Mighell
A few months ago I signed up for the Accurint service, and it is terrific -- I can access background information on opposing parties, or my own clients. When I…