Compliance
Is Your Pre Employment Background Screening FCRA Compliant?
If you’re an employer looking to run background checks on your soon to be employees FCRA compliance is not optional. A blog post by Jana P. Grimm earlier this month highlights the dangers of non-compliance. If your hiring process including employment background screening is not in line with National Labor Relations Act, the Fair Labor…
Read MoreEmployment Background Check State Laws and Regulations
Criminal Records A number of states have their own rules for regulating background checks performed by CRA’s. While the FCRA allows criminal records to be reported indefinitely, a few states limit that window to seven (7) years, most notably California. In New York, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Texas, New Hampshire and Washington waive the seven year…
Read MoreeBook: The How’s, Why’s and Why Not’s of Employment Background Screening
FREE Background Check eBook Guide – Compliance The format of this eBook is simple in that I’ll take you through what comprises a legal and effective employment criminal background check. As a Credit Reporting Agency (CRA) everything that we touch at HireSafe is focused first on our fiduciary responsibility to our client, while always maintaining…
Read MoreHow to Select a Background Screening Company that is Compliant.
Compliant reporting begins with receiving compliant reports from your screening partner. As in every strata of business, there are those that are professional and know their field inside out, and then there’s everybody else. The internet has given rise to amateurs in the background screening industry preying upon unsuspecting and trusting shoppers. There are few…
Read MoreUPDATE: FCRA Compliance
Dear Clients, Our friends at the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) are never far from our radar. As I’ve stressed before, compliance is critical and not optional. Many states have limitations on the reporting period for criminal records allowed for employment suitability screening. Of those states that do, a few of them place the proposed salary…
Read MoreUPDATE: New compliance feature
Dear Clients, The Federal Trade Commission’s main focus for 2016 will be on matching criteria and ensuring accurate identifiers are used for the applicant processing. In an ongoing effort to enhance accuracy and compliance, beginning on March 24th we are adding a new feature for the way names are entered into the HireSafe ordering platform.…
Read MoreBan the Box changes for Philadelphia Private Employers
Effective March 14, 2016 new amendments to the Ban the Box ordinance in Philadelphia will take place. Currently, the ordinance requires companies with at least 10 or more employees to not ask applicants about criminal convictions. This can only be done after the first interview. Philadelphia Ban the Box Changes Now companies with at least…
Read MoreBackground Check Best Practices for Hiring Managers
Hiring managers have a great amount of work to deal with when it comes to deciding which applicants to interview. However, equally important is how to conduct a background check once you have selected the right person to hire. Many decisions have to be made and to say the least in the correct manner. So,…
Read MoreTop 5 Background Check Trends for 2016 – #3 Ban the Box Compliance
Across the country numerous states, counties and cities are adopting Ban the Box that removes criminal history questions from job applications upfront. Employers in areas that have this new law have adjusted their hiring processes. This has affected businesses of all types and sizes. With Ban the Box coming into law in more parts of…
Read MoreTop 5 Background Check Trends for 2016 – #1 Background Check Compliance
One of the top pre-employment background check trends for many businesses in 2016 will be centered on Background Check Compliance. This is due to the increase in multi-million dollar judgements against businesses that had accuracy and compliancy problems. Inaccuracies, inappropriate hiring procedures and lack of technology for pre-employment background checks have made many businesses easy…
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