California’s Senate Bill 7 (SB 7) aims to regulate AI in employment by prohibiting employers from using automated decision systems (ADS) to...
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California SB 7: How AI Hiring Rules Could Impact Background Checks
WebRecon Feb 2025 Stats: Mixed Month for Consumer Statutes, CFPB Complaints Way Up
February FCRA lawsuits were up (+8.2%), however, YTD lawsuits are actually the opposite, down (-0.1%).Continuing last year’s trend, CFPB...
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Nurse’s Arrest Shows Flaws in Tennessee Background Check Reports
Although the car of a Mid-South nurse was found with meth, marijuana and 600 prescription pills inside, her license has remained untarnished. The...
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Pilot Accused of Three Murders Had Criminal Record Prior to Being Hired to Fly
Former U.S. Army and Army Reserve veteran and PSA Airlines pilot Christian Richard Martin had been found guilty of assault on a child under the...
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Complaints Allege Racist Hiring Practices at Walmart Warehouse
Racial discrimination complaints have been filed against Walmart by two African American warehouse workers who were working for several years in a...
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Massachusetts Attorney General is Checking Whether Employment Applications Contain Prohibited Criminal History Questions
Nineteen businesses were recently cited by Attorney General Maura Healey for violation of the state’s ban-the-box law. A similar round of...
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Colorado Legislature Passes Significant Equal Pay Bill, Including Salary History Ban and Job Posting Requirements
The Colorado General Assembly recently passed into legislation Senate Bill 19-085, the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, which aims to strengthen the...
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Washington Adds Pay History Ban, Transparency Requirements
A year after enacting the 2018 Equal Pay and Opportunity Act, the legislature in Washington has passed HB 1696, which restricts pay history...
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Ruling Raises Important Considerations for Independent Contractor Background Screening
A decision by the Southern District of Iowa in Smith v. Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company has provided some hope for those seeking ways to defend...
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Ninth Circuit Weighs in on Calculating the FCRA’s Seven-Year Reporting Rule
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently weighed in on a Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) case in which the plaintiff sued a consumer reporting...
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Eleventh Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Attempted FCRA Class Action Against Furnisher of Consumer Information
The Eleventh Circuit recently dismissed putative class action suit Hunt v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, Nat’l Ass’n, holding that the bank had not...
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Maine and Cincinnati (Ohio) Join the Growing List of Jurisdictions Banning Salary History Inquiries
Maine and Cincinnati now prohibit employers from making salary history inquiries of potential employees. In Maine, “An Act Regarding Pay Equality”...
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