Client Portals
A recent CareerBuilder survey reported that more than a third of employers have lost a candidate because they had a negative experience with their background check. The national survey included representative samples of 2,369 full-time employees and 3,462 full-time…
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, opioid-related overdoses took the lives of 33,000 Americans in 2015. Driving the trend is a steep rise in the use of opioid painkillers, with 35 percent of American adults receiving prescriptions…
It was determined by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin that an employer potentially violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) when it provided the employee with three days to dispute information contained in the background report rather…
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ensures that data subjects have greater control over their personal information, but it creates drastic changes to data privacy for anyone who is in the European Union and for any company that retains EU customer data….
In May, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued an opinion in Dreher v. Experian Information Solutions, Inc., reversing and dismissing a nearly $12 million award in a Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) class action. After applying the U.S. Supreme…
IMG, doing business as Cathedral Health Care Center, an Indiana-based healthcare management group, has been accused of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Michele Petry filed the class action lawsuit after a false background check report caused her to be denied…
Two federal lawsuits in Chicago accuse background check companies of costing job applicants work by sending prospective employers outdated and inaccurate background check reports. Ahmad Khalid alleges Backgroundchecks.com cost him a job because it reported sealed…
In April, the New York City Council approved legislation that will ban employers from requesting or using job applicants’ salary history when making hiring decisions. Introduction 1253-A is similar to those bans in Massachusetts and the City of Philadelphia, along…
In March, the United States District Court for the Central District of California granted final approval of a Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) class action against McDonald’s. James Wesley Carter alleged that the fast-food restaurant violates rights of consumers by…
In April, Gov. Doug Burgum signed a bill that shields applicants for public jobs in North Dakota. The new law makes any records that could identify an applicant for a job with a “public entity” confidential until at least three finalists are designated. Opponents say…