With the holiday shopping season right around the corner, retail merchants will be on watching for shoplifters. But a new report suggests retailers should be looking inside their own stores for employee theft by insiders. A story on Consumerist.com – leading online resource for consumer-driven advice – cites a CNN article reporting that retail crimes such as shoplifting, employee theft, and fraud jumped almost nine percent (8.8%) in the U.S. over the past year ending in ... [More]
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Tags: employee theft, background check, pre-employ.com, consumerist.com, retail theft, shoplifting | Categories: Background Screening | Employee Theft
An article in Workforce Management (www.workforce.com) reveals how two high-profile shootings that occurred on back to back days in Texas and Florida are the latest incidents of workplace violence, and that those tragedies underscore the threat of violence occurring on the job. According to Workforce Management and several news reports, the suspected gunman in the workplace violence incident in Texas, Major Nidal Malik Hasan – an Army psychiatrist who had reportedly opposed hi... [More]
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Tags: background check, workplace violence, workforce management, pre-employ.com | Categories: Government Background Checks | Workplace Violence
A looming legal battle in Texas questions whether fingerprinting as part of background checks may be a violation of religious freedom. According to a report from KTRE-TV Channel 9 in Lufkin, TX and comments by her own attorney, Pam McLaurin, a kindergarten teacher in Polk County, TX with over 20 years of experience, is suing the state for requiring her to be fingerprinted during a background check on the claim that fingerprinting violates her right to practice her religion... [More]
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Tags: fingerprinting, fingerprint, background check, texas, religious freedom, book of revelation | Categories: Background Screening | Education Background Checks | Fingerprinting | Legal Compliance | Privacy
A very interesting blog by Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano adds a new phrase to the growing lexicon surrounding identity theft – “Insider Identity Theft.” According to Siciliano, who likens Insider Identity Theft to “a classic case of the fox watching the henhouse” in which “people with access to sensitive personal data are most likely to commit identity theft,” up to 70% of all identity theft is committed by “insiders” &n... [More]
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Tags: identity theft, insider identity theft, robert siciliano, background check, bank of new york mellon, pre-employ.com | Categories: Background Screening | Employee Benefits | Employment Verifications | Privacy
According to a news release, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is delaying enforcement of the “Red Flags” Rule for financial institutions and creditors with covered accounts to implement an identity theft program – scheduled to take effect November 1, 2009 – until June 1, 2010, at the request of Members of Congress. Created under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions (FACT) Act, the Red Flags Rule set to take effect next June 1 will require “creditors&r... [More]
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Tags: red flags rule, federal trade commission, ftc, fair and accurate credit transactions act, fact act, june 1, 2010, identity theft, pre-employ.com | Categories: Government Background Checks | Legal Compliance | New Legislation | Privacy