POEknows has recently updated our Employment Consumer Report Authorization and Employment Disclosure forms. Due to the growing number of employers that are being targeted for class action lawsuits, we analyzed the allegations and we are recommending changes in order to ensure that our clients are utilizing authorization forms that follow, strictly, the Fair Credit Reporting… [Read More]
Credibility Interview
Criminal background checks and credit reports are a large part of Pre-Employment investigative consumer reports. There is security in knowing that the information being reported to your company for your applicants is as accurate as possible. How do you know that the prospective employee, Robert Brown, does not have an extensive criminal record that will… [Read More]
Individualized Assessments – 2014-04-21b
New York Attorney General, Eric T. Schneiderman announced in April 2014 that his office has secured agreements with four of the nation’s largest consumer reporting agencies (CRA’s). The agreements prohibit the agencies from automatically disqualifying applicants with criminal convictions and require the agencies to defer hiring decisions to employers who must conduct an individualized consideration… [Read More]
Ban the Box
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s recommendation, in its guidance to employers, regarding criminal background checks, to not ask about criminal convictions on employment applications, continues to snowball through state and local courts across the country. Keeping tabs on the jurisdictions which have put into law the so-called “Ban the Box” recommendation is difficult. As of… [Read More]
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