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EEOC and FTC Joint Guidance On Background Screening
Someone forgot to tell March that it was supposed to go out like a lamb. The old saying, “If March comes in like a lion, it will go out like a lamb,” has filtered down through generations of folks who, for various reasons according to the Farmers’ Almanac, believe...
The Tale of the Fake Diploma: A Staffing Nightmare
School: a majority of the population spends almost a quarter of their life there and sometimes longer. When you think about that, it’s no wonder that it feels so good to have a college degree. You put 20 + years into that degree, you worked hard – late nights at...
The Benefits of Compliance Automation
Compliance automation. Big words. Lofty topic. Sounds intimidating, right?Unless you’re already an expert in background screening (if so, we should talk!), you may not have a clue what compliance automation is and what it can do for your business.We’ll get to that...
Criminal Records on a Federal Level
Everyone commits youthful transgressions. Maybe you switched around your neighbor’s lawn ornaments. Or toilet papered a few trees. Innocent fun. But there was that one thing your parents always warned you about – mailboxes. Don’t mess with a mailbox, it’s a federal...
Roles in Compliance: Furnisher, CRA, End User & Reseller
We started last week explaining what it means to be Consumer Reporting Agency and examining credit protection. Here’s a snapshot of what we learned: * A company is a CRA if it assembles and evaluates consumer report information and provides those reports to third...
Active Screening’s Pick of the Week – Mar 24-28
Check out what the following blogs had to say about HR trends, news and more. Below is a list of our top five favorite posts from this week. Check back every Friday for five more!1. If Great Talent Walked Through Your Door, Would You Recognize It?Facebook made a big...
How a Proper Background Check Saved USF from a $1,000,000 Mistake
Early in the month the University of South Florida decided to end the contract of its basketball coach Stan Heath. Heath had brought the team to one NCAA Tournament in 2012 but failed to do it again since bringing an end to his career with USF. The search for the...
Drug Testing: Professional Sports and Competitions
Cave paintings as far back as 3,000 BC depict wrestling tournaments. Ancient monuments in Egypt indicate a variety of sporting events. Greece held the first Olympic Games in 700 BC, a tradition we all know very well today. The list goes on all the way up to modern day...
The EEOC: 12 Rules All Employers Should Know
Being a background screening company we often only focus on the EEOC’s guidance on criminal records. It’s something that directly concerns our business, our clients and our reports but the EEOC plays a much bigger role in the employment world. For today’s post I am...
The FCRA and You: Protecting Your Credit Information
By law, a company is a “consumer reporting agency” if it assembles and evaluates consumer report information and provides those reports to third parties, for monetary purposes. Therefore, any business that uses consumer reports for employment purposes has to comply...