While Chattanooga leaders are working to make it easier to hire people with criminal backgrounds, the Chattanooga Police Department is years...
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Chattanooga Police Backlogged On 23,000 Expunged Records
Study: Credit-Check Bans Lead To More Bias
A new study finds that when employers are prohibited from looking into applicants’ financial history, African-Americans become more likely to be...
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Bethlehem, PA Waiting To Ask Job Seekers About Criminal Records
Come March 14, Bethlehem no longer will ask each job applicant up front about a criminal record.That information, however, will be divulged prior...
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New Twist On The Sex-Offender Registry: Financial Crime
States have taken the idea of the sex-offender registry and applied it to everything from kidnapping to animal abuse. Utah is expanding it into...
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Top Candidates Are Gone Within 10 Days … So Assign Each A ‘Hire-By-Date’
If business people ran recruiting … they would assign a “hire by date” to each must-hire candidate, because these valuable in-demand candidates...
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Removing Birthdate From Iowa Court Records Could Have Unintended Consequences
Many federal, state and local public agencies and courts are actively considering whether to remove or redact identifiers from public records and...
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Rooting Out Jerks Is More Important Than Hiring Superstars, New Study Shows
Firing your worst employee is worth more than twice as much as hiring a superstar, claims new Harvard research. “While a top 1% worker might...
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State Contractors Must Use E-Verify, AG Says
Proponents of tougher state-based immigration enforcement in Texas have won a small but significant victory. In an opinion, Attorney General Ken...
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Montana’s Revised Medical Marijuana Law Survives Constitutional Challenge
The Montana Supreme Court has upheld against a state constitutional challenge the State’s 2011 Montana Marijuana Act, a new statutory framework...
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Illinois Medical Marijuana Law: What Employers Should Know
In November 2015, medical marijuana dispensaries in Illinois began treating patients under Illinois? Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot...
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Combating the Prescription Drug Crisis
Drug overdoses—predominantly from opioid painkillers such as OxyContinand Percocet—now exceed car crashes as the leading cause of unintentional...
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Legalizing Marijuana – Off-Duty Use – An Employer’s Quandary
More and more cities and states are legalizing the use of marijuana for medical and recreational use. The good news is that means in those...
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