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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Whole Foods Market Agrees to Settle in FCRA Class Action Lawsuit
Whole Foods Market Group, Inc., and the plaintiff, Colin Speer, on behalf of himself and a proposed class of similarly situated individuals, agreed to a preliminary settlement of Mr. Speer’s FCRA Class Action lawsuit. The settlement provides for Whole Foods to pay $802,700 to create a fund for settlement payments to be made to approximately 20,000 class members. This case was originally filed by Mr. Speer’s lawyers in [...]
New York City Restricts the Use of Credit Reports for Employment Purposes
New York City, later this week (as of September 3, 2015) will restrict the use of credit reports as part of the employment hiring decision. Except under limited circumstances, it will be illegal for employers to utilize and consider an individual’s consumer credit history in the employment process – be it at initial hire, or later during the employment process, i.e., to determine future compensation, job promotion, etc. [...]
“Ban the Box” Movement Continues to Expand
It was just about a year ago when I wrote how the “Ban the Box” movement was gaining traction in various states and cities around the nation. Well the march of jurisdictions continuing to implement some degree of limitations upon employers — regarding asking job applicants about their criminal history on initial job applications — has not abated. In the past month, New York City and the state [...]
Supreme Court rules that Disparate Impact can apply to the Fair Housing Act
On June 25, 2015, the Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling upheld a Court of Appeals decision that Disparate Impact is applicable under the Fair Housing Act. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the opinion for the majority in the case of Texas Department of Housing Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. According to Justice Kennedy, “the underlying dispute in this case concerns where housing for low-income persons [...]
Michaels Stores – 3 FCRA Class Action Lawsuits Consolidated in New Jersey
Michael Stores, the recipient of three separate class action lawsuits for alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA – the federal law that regulates employee background checks, and which imposes significant rules and disclosure requirements upon employers), will now have a consolidated venue of New Jersey for all three federal cases. Last month, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ordered that the District of New Jersey [...]
$3 Million FCRA Settlement by Food Lion Parent
As I have been writing for well over a year, Fair Credit Reporting Act class action lawsuits (FCRA – the federal law that governs employee background checks, and which places very specific disclosure requirements upon employers) have been and are continuing. In Brown v. Delhaize America, LLC, the Food Lion parent company agreed to settle for $3 million, and it is easy to understand why. With nearly 60,000 [...]
