Two lawsuits filed last week by federal regulators suggest that if employers act unilaterally to exclude all job applicants who have criminal records, without regard to recent guidelines laid out by ...

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Jeffries writes that the issue of deviating from policy on background checks leaves employers vulnerable to litigation from doing selective background checks. Conducting a background check before ...

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Yakima County commissioners are reviewing whether to change county policies regarding background checks of job applicants following the arrest of an employee accused of forging nearly $8,000 worth of ...