The applicant screening industry moves fast. Keep up with our Industry News blog, which presents breaking news items, culled from newspapers and trade publications, relating to legislation, case law, statistics and trends in applicant screening.
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Departments of Justice and Homeland Security release new I-9 audit guidelines
The guidance aims to help employers implement and conduct internal I-9 audits that are in compliance with the employer sanctions and anti-discrimination provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Read More
New Pennsylvania law will allow nonviolent misdemeanor crimes to be sealed
Senate Bill 166 was signed into law by Gov. Tom Wolf on Feb. 16 and will allow individuals who have served their punishment for nonviolent misdemeanors to petition to have their records sealed from public view. Read More
Washington D.C.’s “Ban the Box” law strongly enforced in its first full year
Over 400 individuals alleged a violation of D.C.’s Fair Criminal Record Screening Amendment Act—legislation otherwise known as “Ban the Box”—in the law’s first full year on the books, according the District of Columbia’s Office of Human Rights (OHR). Read More
Home Depot resolves FCRA claims for $3M
The resolution comes as a result of a 2013 lawsuit alleging the home improvement warehouse store’s job applications used disclosure and authorization forms that contained extraneous information. Read More
Court reinstates background checks for professors at state universities in Pennsylvania
A judge ruled that faculty members at Pennsylvania’s 14 state universities who teach 100-level courses must resume completing criminal background and child abuse clearance checks as required by a State System of Higher Education policy. Read More