Employment Screening Discrimination Still Major Problem

  • By Dave Jordan
  • Mar 28th, 2013
Minorities still face an uphill battle with discrimination during the hiring process.

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 [...]

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EEOC Memorandum on Criminal Background Check Procedure

  • By Dave Jordan
  • Jul 11th, 2012

An interesting article I came across today discussed a new “guidance” of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commision (EEOC) regarding the acquiring of background checks by employers. The “Enforcement Guidance on the Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions under Title VII of the Civil Right Act of 1964” would make things considerably more [...]

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Weekly Register – Private Investigations, Employment Check Tips, and Old Criminal Cases

  • By Dave Jordan
  • Jul 02nd, 2012
Weekly Register

This weekly register offers quite a mix. On the one hand you have a pretty serious private investigation company that does it all. On the other, the criminal background check guidelines recently released by the EEOC are starting to gain more exposure in real world cases. Personally, I think that in the long run case [...]

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Equal Opportunity Employment Updates when using Background Checks

  • By Cameron
  • May 17th, 2012
Equal-employment-opportunity-commission

The use of a criminal background check during a hiring process has many people confused about what they (the employer) can legally do and what they can legally use. Can they “overlook” you because of negative information that was found via a Google search? Do they have to tell you up front that they are [...]

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