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… [Read More]
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… [Read More]
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… [Read More]
IRS failed to Perform Checks on Contractors
By: Associated Press – August 17, 2014 — WASHINGTON — The IRS failed to do background checks on some private contractors who handled confidential taxpayer information, exposing more than a million taxpayers to an increased risk of fraud and identity theft, a government investigator said. In one case, the IRS… [Read More]
Invalid Employment Consumer Report Authorizations?
Thousands of job applicants have filed class action lawsuits, claiming the Defendant Employers’ Authorization forms are invalid because they contain extraneous information. The lawsuits claim the Employers’ Authorization forms contain, among other things: release of liability applicant admission that the applicant has not knowingly withheld any information the application does… [Read More]