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In an effort to advance wage equality, the Philadelphia Fair Practices Ordinance is being amended to make the city the first to ban employers from asking about the wage history of job applicants. The law also prohibits reliance on wage history in determining the wages…
The UK has decided to withdraw its membership from the European Union. Despite the result, data protection standards are unlikely to be affected. The full details of how and when the UK will negotiate its exit from the EU is still unclear. The process for withdrawal…
If business people ran recruiting … they would assign a “hire by date” to each must-hire candidate, because these valuable in-demand candidates are likely to be quickly out of the job market.Unfortunately, many recruiting leaders and hiring managers mistakenly assume…
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 return $5,303 in cost savings to a company through increased output, avoiding a toxic hire will net an estimated…
Continuing the nationwide crackdown on the use of criminal history as a factor in employment decisions, California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) released proposed regulations for employers with new prohibitions on the practice. In addition…
The Federal Government announced a series of changes to modernize and strengthen the way we conduct background investigations for Federal employees and contractors and protect sensitive data. These changes include the establishment of the National Background…
With companies facing hacking and age-old threats like workplace violence, a thorough system for screening out problem employees is more important than ever. But a laudable push by policymakers to get people “back to work” and make progress on issues such…
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, including one against the prominent real estate firm Freeman Webb. Tyrone Jude was hired as a maintenance man at a Lebanon…
Claims brought against employers under the FCRA arising out of one aspect or another of employers’ background investigation procedures have been the litigation de jure recently. Many of these lawsuits have resulted in multi-million dollar settlements. There is a…
Changes in federal sentencing guidelines will result in the early release of thousands of inmates from prison over the next several years. The lack of employment is generally recognized as a factor that causes recidivism for ex-offenders, and there is increased…