BACKGROUND CHECK NEWS AND ARTICLES
Reliable Background Screening has a long and successful history performing background checks in a multitude of industries, nationwide. Reliable is widely considered as the experts in the intricacies of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and other background screening regulations. President and CEO, Rudy Troisi, has been a speaker, nationally, at numerous professional organizations on the topic of employee and other background checks. As part of our stated goal to educate our clients about what background information they should have, and what the best methods are to acquire it, please refer to the two areas below, which contain valuable information pertaining to background checks.
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Is Your Employee Screening Disclosure and Authorization Form Still Compliant
Just a few weeks ago, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling in Gilberg v. California Check Cashing Stores that may have a significant impact on whether an Employee Screening Disclosure and Authorization (DA) form is compliant. Although the FCRA (Fair Credit Reporting Act – the federal law that regulates employee screening) has not changed, case law evolves over time. Further, predatory plaintiff attorneys seek to [...]
Preferred Partner Program to Protect Franchise Brands
Reliable Background Screening has introduced its Preferred Partner Program to protect franchise brands. So often individuals invest a substantial portion of their wealth into a franchise brand – a brand that is offered to a myriad of individuals. By vetting each new franchisee owner, both the franchise brand and all franchisee owners are best protected. The Preferred Partner Program will help franchise businesses maintain uniformity and reduce risk. [...]
Be Wary of Background Checks – Especially from Referral Services
There is a plethora of referral services (and other types of companies) that promote, “our members (or employees) are background checked.” Some of these companies advertise on television and other media formats, while many others only promote their services via brochures and signs. When you check “the fine print” of the websites of most of these companies, the efficacy and adequacy of their background checks are typically disavowed. [...]
Revised FCRA Summary of Rights For Background Checks Must Be Used as of 09-21-18
A revised FCRA Summary of Rights must be used starting September 21, 2018. The key compliance impact for companies and other organizations that need to obtain a background check ̶ be it employee screening, tenant screening, franchisee screening, country club membership screening or other type of permissible business purpose background check ̶ is that a new FCRA Summary of Rights must now be provided. This required change is [...]
Middle Name is Critical for Proper Background Checks
Criminal records typically have no Social Security Number attached to them. Thus searching for criminal records is performed on a legal name and date of birth match. The challenge is that there are at most 366 days in a year, but there are nearly 330 million people in the United States. No matter how unique your name is, it’s likely that at least several if not thousands of [...]
The Real Cost of a Bad Hire
Hiring employees is generally a gamble. One never knows if the individual who applies for employment will truly succeed. Many individuals interview very well. Unfortunately, once on the job, many do not really work out. Even those who reach and surpass the proverbial 90-day probationary period are often not your ideal employee. Yet companies and organizations often keep sub-standard performers employed years after hire, due to the time [...]
