The Rhode Island Supreme Court has held that a three-year statute of limitations applies to claims alleging violations of the employer drug...
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The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said it will decide in the first half of 2016 whether marijuana should be reclassified under federal...
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The lease on an Albany warehouse holding fingerprint records and other personal information collected from 22 million people was about to expire...
MoreGov. Nixon Signs Executive Order To “Ban The Box” In State Employment
Gov. Jay Nixon visited the St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment to sign Executive Order 16-04, to lessen barriers to individuals with...
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Two new bills affecting credit reporting and the use of credit reports for employment purposes are working their way through Congress. If passed...
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Uber agreed to pay up to $25 million to settle a 2014 lawsuit filed by city officials in San Francisco and Los Angeles who argued that the ride...
MoreWisconsin Employers Targeted For Technical Violations of The Fair Credit Reporting Act
Within the past year, one Wisconsin resident has filed several class-action lawsuits against Wisconsin employers. In each case, the plaintiff...
MoreChattanooga Police Backlogged On 23,000 Expunged Records
While Chattanooga leaders are working to make it easier to hire people with criminal backgrounds, the Chattanooga Police Department is years...
MoreStudy: 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...
MoreBethlehem, 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...
MoreNew 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...
MoreTop 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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