U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield agreed to the terms of the Sterling class action settlement, which ends allegations that the background...
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Sterling Background Check Class Action Settlement Gets Final OK
Portland, Oregon Bans the Box
Portland’s City Council unanimously passed new rules that will significantly affect an employer’s ability to obtain and use criminal history...
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Nashville Joins Other Cities in Ban the Box Movement
Metro’s Civil Service Commission voted unanimously in favor of a movement called Ban the Box. Nashville will join about 100 cities and 16 states...
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California Law and Background Screening
The California Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether the Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act (ICRAA) is unconstitutionally vague...
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Bad Background Check Leads to Class Actions, Including Against Freeman Webb
A man who says he was wrongfully fired over false information in a background check has filed a pair of class-action lawsuits in federal court...
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Phony Job Applicants Targeting Employers Based on Technical Violations of Federal Background Check Law
Claims brought against employers under the FCRA arising out of one aspect or another of employers’ background investigation procedures have...
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Testing Employer Background Screening Practices
Changes in federal sentencing guidelines will result in the early release of thousands of inmates from prison over the next several years. The...
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Hoosier Daddy? Background Checks Not Subject to Indiana Sales Tax
The Indiana Department of Revenue concluded that a company’s employment screening and background checking services are not subject to sales tax...
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Background Checks More Accurate When Done by Private Sector Companies: Stuart Pratt, Consumer Data Industry Association
An opinion piece by Shantell George claimed that background checks done by private sector businesses were inaccurate. However, she failed to offer...
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Model Social Media Privacy Legislation to be Proposed in 2016
The Uniform Law Commission recently announced that it intends to propose legislation in 2016 that would seek to bring uniformity and consistency...
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Maine Is Latest State to Restrict Employer Access to Personal Social Media Accounts
Recently, Maine became the latest state to enact legislation restricting an employer’s access to employees’ and job applicants’ personal social...
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Employers May Request Alternative Documents Following an Internal I-9 Audit
On October 23, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC) issued...
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