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March 26, 2015 By POE Knows

POE celebrates 42 years in Business

Where were You on March 28, 1973? Did you know? The Number One Hit Song in the U.S. on March 28, 1973 was “Killing Me Softly With His Song”, by Roberta Flack. Ask your grandparents if they know this song. American singer/songwriter, Matt Nathanson, was born on March 28, 1973. Ask your kids or grandkids if they know him and his songs. And, while you’re checking, ask if anybody remembers seeing Bobbie and Howard Levin… [Read More]

February 4, 2015 By POE Knows

Ban the Box – 2015 Update

In a January, 2015 report, reflecting the growing political consensus behind “smart on crime” reforms, the National Employment Law Project (NELP) is making the case for a federal Ban the Box initiative. In great part because more than 100 jurisdictions, including 13 states, the District of Columbia and 96 cities and counties, have embraced “fair chance” hiring policies by adopting “ban the box” and other hiring reforms. The report, entitled – Advancing a Federal Fair… [Read More]

February 3, 2015 By POE Knows

Safer Business Practices: Shielding Sources

The HR Magazine article: Safer Separations, written by Johnny Lee, director of Peace at Work, an agency dedicated to violence prevention in the workplace, states, “Terminations and layoffs are the leading causes of workplace violence committed by employees. Being respectful of the terminated employee betters the chances that the employee will walk away without engaging in retaliatory behavior.”, Lee said. He provides tips for before, during and after a termination meeting. Similarly, in POE’s screening… [Read More]

November 25, 2014 By POE Knows

Credibility Interview

As Edward Snowden prepared to defend himself in a worldwide webinar, the Justice Department accused the private contractor that vetted him and thousands of other intelligence workers of bilking U.S. taxpayers out of tens of millions of dollars by conducting 665,000 fake background checks between 2008 and 2012, with a scheme known as “dumping” or “flushing” in order to boost the firm’s profits. No dumping at POE, no Flushing at POE. By contrast, to the… [Read More]

October 28, 2014 By POE Knows

Prevent Class Action Lawsuits

Thousands of job applicants have filed class action lawsuits, claiming the Defendant Employers’ Authorization forms are invalid because the forms contain extraneous information. POE believes it may be only a matter of time before property owners and managers are presented with the same legal challenge. Accordingly, POE has revised our Resident Consumer Report Authorization and we have created a new Resident Consumer Report Disclosure. POE recommends that our multi-family housing and property management clients take… [Read More]