The Complete Guide to Employment Verifications [2022]
When hiring new employees for your business, you will probably look at many applications and resumes for every open position. Doing this gives you a great opportunity to check many candidates’...
How to Prevent Remote Employees From Overworking
Have employees working from home? Don’t be surprised when you find these particular employees feeling like they are working more than when at the office because… they are probably right....
Minnesota School Hires Sex Offender Coach Due to Weak Background Check Policy
A former volleyball coach for a Forest Lake, Minnesota high school has been convicted of sexually assaulting multiple students after being hired by the school despite...
New Research Finds Remote Workers Are Putting in More Time Than Before the Pandemic
Many employees have longed to work from home, looking to escape the commute and have more time in the day, but new research performed in the U.S., Canada, the U.K.,...
Why Employers Are Rehiring Past Employees
With the current difficult labor market, managers are more then ever to not lose their employees. However, this seems unavoidable considering the sheer number of people choosing to leave their jobs. But,...
Supreme Court Nominees Show the Importance of Background Checks
The recent news that several potential nominees for the Supreme Court are receiving background checks has called awareness to this critical part of the hiring process. As this shows...
Is Cannabis Testing for Employment Still Worth It?
For a great many years, a clean drug test has simply been an assumed part of the hiring process. One component of the drug testing panel has always been a list of illegal drugs that would be tested...
VR Headsets May Be HR’s Newest Tool to Fight Burnout and Fatigue
For many remote workers, the last several years have been spent looking into laptops in a seemingly endless series of Zoom meetings. This has led to widespread recognition of...
Seventh Circuit Finds that Stray References to Age During Interview Was Not Discrimination
The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has ruled that an interviewer’s references to a 56-year-old applicant’s age were insufficient to...
Ninth Circuit Finds that Tenant Screening Provider Did Not Willfully Violate the FCRA
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has recently affirmed the ruling of a district court finding that a tenant screening provider had not...