Client Portals
The EEOC has been ordered by a federal court to turn over its own background check policy to an employer whom it is suing for a criminal background check policy that allegedly had a disparate impact on black employees. The employer had moved to compel to produce…
On Dec. 4,2014 Christina Graham, a resident of New Jersey, filed a background check class action lawsuit against Michaels Stores Inc., lawsuit alleging the retailer did not disclose to her and other job applicants that the company runs background checks-criminal…
Colin Speer hit Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. with a class action lawsuit in a Florida federal court alleging that the grocery store chain performs illegal background checks on prospective and existing employees in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Speer…
San Francisco recently posted FAQs describing key provisions of the city’s Fair Chance Ordinance (“Ordinance”), which took effect on August 13, 2014. The “bans the box,” Ordinance prohibits most private employers and contractors in the…
Is California’s Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act (“ICRAA”) constitutional? The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is poised to hear oral argument on the question on February 2, 2015. California created two separate laws when enacting a…
A growing number of states and localities have enacted laws that restrict employers from considering certain types of criminal records in hiring and other personnel decisions. Though many of these laws are more recent, Pennsylvania’s Criminal History Record…
Lead plaintiff Michael Craig Mitchell alleges in his class action lawsuit against two Maryland staffing companies, Allegis Group Inc. and its operating company Aerotek Inc. He alleges Allegis and Aerotek violated the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) when they…
Adrian Wright Jr., 31, a former school janitor in Baton Rouge, was booked on a count of forcible rape of a 14 year old girl. On that Saturday, Wright allegedly pushed the girl, a student at North Banks Middle School, into a classroom and then raped her. She did not…
In Waco, TX, after La Vega ISD officials discovered possible criminal offenses that were missed because of improper background checking on an athletic trainer who was brought in to work with the cheerleaders the volunteer was barred from school property. The district…
The ACFE invites you to publish and/or post for your audience our new infographic, “The Cost of Complacency.” When it comes to fraud, what is the cost of complacency? Research conducted by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), the…