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 California, Inc. – Class Action Lawsuit
On Friday, February 7, 2014, a lawsuit was filed against Whole Foods Market California, Inc., in an effort to create a class action lawsuit against this employer for violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The FCRA requires that an employee background screening authorization form have the sole purpose of providing the required FCRA disclosures, and obtaining the consumer’s authorization to perform the employee background check only. It [...]
New FCRA Disclosures Required Starting Today
The deadline has finally arrived for mandatory use of revised FCRA forms What I posted last November, is now a mandatory use of revised FCRA Employee Screening Disclosure and Authorizations forms, as well as revised FCRA Summary of Consumer Rights. This change in forms is a result of the CFPB replacing the FTC as the governing agency over enforcement of the FCRA. The FCRA (Fair Credit Reporting Act) [...]
Revised FCRA & Employee Screening Disclosures
Today we revised our employee screening disclosures and service agreements. This was done in advance of the mandatory requirement, effective January 1, 2013, that these employee screening disclosures, as well as the FCRA Summary of Rights be updated. The reason that these revisions are being required is because the Consumer Financial Protection Board (CFPB) is replacing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), as the chief enforcer of the Fair [...]
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Guidelines
On April 25, 2012, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued new guidelines for employee background checks, both for pre-employment screening and existing employee background checks. The EEOC did this without releasing a draft for public notice and comment, as is usually done before final guidelines are issued. Given this unilateral action on the part of the EEOC, it is expected that Congress and many industry groups will [...]
New York Employee Screening Laws
Effective today there is a new law for companies employing or background screening individuals in the State of New York. So if your company performs employee screening in New York State, here is would you should know. There are three components with this new law: 1. All companies in the State of New York or employing individuals in the State of New York must post a copy of [...]
