Creating fraudulent documents has become easier as technology has improved. With just a computer, printer, scanner and Photoshop software, fabricating fake paystubs can be done at home. Even online paystub services like stubsamples.com and speedystub.com generate…
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How a Fort Myers Mental Hospital Missed Warning Signs About Employee Who Sexually Assaulted Patients
Benjamin Bland’s supervisors missed several red flags when they hired him to care for patients at Park Royal Hospital, a last stop for many of Southwest Florida’s seriously mentally ill citizens. Bland was accused of sexually abusing several female…
Two of Largest Background Check Firms Must Pay $13 Million Over Accuracy Questions
Two of the U.S.’ largest employment background check providers must pay $13 million for failing to ensure their background checks did not contain inaccuracies, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced. Serious inaccuracies reported by General Information…
“Ban the Box”: Good for People with Disabilities
President Obama took an historic step by directing the Office of Personnel Management to take action to ban the box in federal employment. As a result, OPM will modify its rules to delay inquiries into criminal history until later in the hiring process. Encouraging…
Unseen Cost of a Bad Hire
The hiring process is more organized and elaborate now than ever before; and steps involved in hiring have considerably increased. After years of experience on working with bad hires, companies are now realizing the monetary and nonmonetary cost of a ‘mis-hire’ or…
Amid U.S. Inmate Release, Employers Wary of Lawsuits From Job Applicant Criminal Record Legislation
As the nation’s leaders come together on criminal justice reforms that they hope will reduce the U.S. inmate population and the harshness of criminal penalties, advocates for the formerly incarcerated want to discourage public and private employers from using criminal…
Infinity Staffing Background Check Class Action Settlement
Infinity Staffing Solutions LLC d/b/a Lyneer Staffing Solutions has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it violated the FCRA with regard to background checks it obtained on job applicants. The background check class action lawsuit was filed by plaintiff…
The Fair Chance – Ban the Box Toolkit
In the early 2000s, grassroots organizers in San Francisco and Boston began urging local governments to remove questions about convictions from job applications so that people can be judged first on their qualifications. Just over a decade later, over 100…
Employee Background Checks: Duties and Limitations on the Employer
Conducting background checks is both a necessary and risky venture that employers take on when hiring and retaining employees. Employers are increasingly finding themselves in litigation challenging the use of background checks as part of the screening process when…
Class Suit Targets Uber’s Pre-Employment Background Checks
Uber Inc. has been hit with a putative class action in federal court in Newark claiming it violates the Fair Credit Reporting Act by using background reports in hiring decisions without allowing applicants to dispute entries in their reports. The case, Cuccinello v….