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New Mexico is paving the way for pot smokers everywhere. That makes for an amusing headline; Marijuana Now Legal In New Mexico. However, the state has a long history of medicinal use of cannabis and this is really nothing new. It just means the roadblocks and hassles faced by the producer, doctor, and patient are [...]
A recent report on WHNT News 19 in Huntsville, AL has raised some interesting debate about background checks with regard to temporary employees and temp agencies. An anonymous employee sent News 19 a letter that questioned Huntsville schools using temporary employees from multiple temp agencies for different jobs in the schools. The non-profit firm Phoenix [...]
I recently revisited an MSNBC story posted in August of 2010 and was reminded that we still have a long way to go toward reaching some kind of consensus regarding discrimination in criminal background check policies. The fact that Dollar General Corp. is involved in an EEOC dispute over discrimination involving its policies drives this [...]
Back in January of last year, New Jersey Governor Christopher J. Christie vetoed an EMS bill that intends to mandate background checks on all EMS workers, including volunteers. There are loud proponents of the bill, obviously citing safety issues, but it got ugly. Apparently, the proponents have a “smear campaign” wherein they’re suggesting that EMT [...]
We should give people with criminal backgrounds a better shot at getting a job. So says Bruce Harrell, Seattle City Councilman, according to KOMO News. Harrell has just unveiled the plan, which has sparked a lot of conflicting opinions. The plan would prevent Seattle business owners from running criminal background checks on job candidates before [...]
Last week a story was released about a defrocked priest working for the Transporation Security Administration (TSA) at Philadelphia International Airport. The story goes that in 2002, just months after being defrocked by the Diocese of Camden, Thomas Harkins landed a security job with the TSA. The report specified that as a security officer his [...]
Last month one of America’s largest discount retail chains found itself under scrutiny by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over their company policies regarding criminal background checks on job candidates. It’s the latest example of the risks employers take by running background checks. It’s not the background checks themselves, which are widely recognized as [...]
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