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When the City of Boston conducted hair follicle drug testing on thousands of police officers, cadets and job applicants, the results demonstrated a 1 percent difference in negative results for Caucasian employees over African Americans. A group of African American…
In the latest release of the Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index, its senior director of science and technology noted that, over the past five years, there have been small increases in post-accident positivity rates in urine drug testing that have led to dramatic…
North Dakota joined 28 states across the nation who have legalized some form of medical marijuana use when its Compassionate Care Act went into effect in December. The Act does not allow employees to possess marijuana in the workplace, nor does it include…
Crothall Services Group, Wayne, Pa., admitted it had used criminal history background assessments in its hiring decisions. But, according to the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC), failing to keep adequate records on the impact those assessments had on…
In an effort to advance wage equality, the Philadelphia Fair Practices Ordinance is being amended to make the city the first to ban employers from asking about the wage history of job applicants. The law also prohibits reliance on wage history in determining the wages…
The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) council has issued a final rule that broadly requires specific privacy training and annual re-training for contractor or subcontractor personnel dealing with “personally identifiable information (PII). The provisions have no…
The Ninth Circuit has determined that a prospective employer violates the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) when it procures a job applicant’s consumer report after including a liability waiver in the same document as the statutorily mandated disclosure. In addition, a…
Wegmans Food Markets has been accused of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) in a lawsuit alleging the company failed to give proper notification to job applicants and employees prior to a routine consumer background screening process. The two accusers,…
In order to be licensed in Colorado, a new bill could require about 160,000 medical professionals to undergo fingerprint-based background checks. The state is one of just six that doesn’t require fingerprint checks for doctors and one of five that exempt nurses from…
Washington, D.C., has joined 11 states, New York City and Chicago in an effort to prevent employers from conducting credit history screens for job applicants. The D.C. Council Judiciary Committee unanimously passed The Fair Credit in Employment Amendment Act, which…