People with arrest records, heavily African Americans and Latinos, have won a $15 million settlement in a case in which they were unable to obtain jobs as census takers due to alleged problems with the U.S. Census Bureau’s background check procedures. The…
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The Ninth Circuit Limits Immunity from Negligent Failure to Warn Cases Under the Communications Decency Act
A recent case in which the violent history of the user of an Internet dating site was not revealed to a potential match, resulting in her harm, has caused the Ninth Circuit to make significant changes to use of Section 230. The Ninth Circuit recently limited the…
Weigh the Risks and Rewards of Employing Job Seekers with Criminal Histories
Given a workforce facing unprecedented skills gaps and a country where tens of thousands of state and federal inmates are being released back into their communities every month, finding a way to integrate previously incarcerated persons into the workforce is a worthy…
Hiring the Wrong People Costs Money
Human Resource Management research has confirmed that managers play a critical role in the retention of new hires, and that those employees who quit within the first year were hired through an inadequate staff-selection process, have had poor staff orientation or have…
New Orleans Adopts Legislation Prohibiting City Contractors From Conducting Employment-Related Credit Checks
The New Orleans City Council recently approved legislation making it unlawful for city contractors to seek or use the consumer credit history of a current or prospective employee for any decision regarding the hiring or compensation of an employee or the terms,…
Outdoing Arizona and Alabama: Georgia’s Quest for Immigration Compliance SB 160
The Georgia State Legislature passed SB 160 this last session and just signed into law by Governor Nathan Deal, which greatly expands Georgia’s previous immigration compliance law HB 87. SB 160 potentially imposes greater hardships to many state sub-contractors,…
Data Theft Rises Sharply, Insiders to Blame
A new survey exploring the main causes of corporate data breaches suggests that three out of four organizations in the US have been hit with the loss or theft of sensitive data in the last two years — and insiders are usually the ones at fault.According to the…
New Report Finds Insider Corporate Data Theft and Malware Infections Among Biggest Threat to Digital Business in 2016
Insider data theft and malware attacks top the list of the most significant concerns for enterprise security executives, a new report from Accenture and HfS Research reveals. Of those surveyed, a majority (69%) of respondents experienced an attempted or successful…
Employers Advised to Review Drug Free Workplace Policy if They Intend to Prohibit Medical Marijuana Use
Ohio’s new medical marijuana law takes effect next month. Employers should be reminded that business groups lobbied for an exception allowing employers with drug-free workplace policies to take adverse action against applicants and employees for medical marijuana…
Supplemental Briefs Submitted to the Ninth Circuit for Decision in Spokeo Case
After the Supreme Court vacated and remanded the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, the parties again appeared before the lower court, arguing over whether a purely technical violation of the FCRA is sufficient to satisfy the concreteness requirement…







