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Fair Chance Hiring and Criminal Background Checks

Sterling Check

As companies begin to scrutinize their hiring processes to eliminate bias and increase equity, the question of criminal background checks is often part of the conversation. Understanding these laws can help organizations to continue to conduct criminal background screening and still achieve goals of increased diversity.

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5 Legal HR Mistakes Which Can Prove Very Costly

Crimcheck | Pre-Employment & Background Check Information

FCRA Disclosures and Notifications Many HRs now use background checks to inform decisions like recruitment, promotion and termination. Whenever background checks are used, the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) comes into play. The two most recent ones were in November 2014 and March 2015.

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Can HR really fix organisations’ diversity problems?

cipHR

Instances of racism, harassment and discrimination have, for many workers who identify as part of a minority group, sadly been part of and parcel of working life for too long. The growing strength of the Black Lives Matter movement has thrown the spotlight on instances of racism and a lack of inclusion at organisations around the world.

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Fair Chance Hiring Practices

Sterling Check

As companies begin to scrutinize their hiring processes to eliminate bias and increase equity, the question of criminal background checks is often part of the conversation. Understanding these laws can help organizations to continue to conduct criminal background screening and still achieve goals of increased equity and diversity.

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Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: The Benefits & Why it Matters

Empuls

Each of our social spectrums – race, gender, sexual orientation, age, education, socioeconomic backgrounds, personalities, interests, and so on, are equally important. The research also shows that performance has improved by 12%, and the intent is to stay by 20%! What is diversity and inclusion? But there is hope.

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5 Reasons Why HR Compliance is More Complicated Than Ever

Cisive

A vendor partner can be the HR practitioner’s best support to help navigate the fast-moving legal compliance landscape that includes background screening, reference checks, and employment verification. Your vendor partner should have comprehensive and up-to-date information on each. Changes to Ban the Box.

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WIRTW #349 (the “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, y’all” edition)

Ohio Employer's Law

With the end of the year drawing nigh, today’s post will be my last of 2014 (barring any hot-off-the-presses breaking news). Accent Discrimination in the Workplace. — via Fitzpatrick on Employment Law The GOP Effect on the EEOC — via HRE Online Is Retaliation The New Discrimination?? — I’ll see everyone back in 2015.