Employers commonly conduct background checks on prospective employees in various areas that they may think relevant when deciding whether to hire an individual for a job. Yet, federal, state, and ...

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In today’s increasingly competitive world, employers seek to minimize the risks associated with hiring new team members. Background checks are becoming an integral part of the hiring process to ensure ...

Last month, a middle school counselor was fired following the discovery that he had been convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor while employed in Virginia’s largest school system. In ...

Criminal background checks processed by the attorney general’s office under a new state law no longer include information about arrests and charges that didn’t result in convictions. But the changes ...

When you apply for a job, it's common to have a pre-employment background check. Companies often use information from criminal records, driving records, and credit history to help them make employment ...

The EEOC is challenging auto-rejection practices amid a national reckoning over the personal and societal costs of unemployment for those who served time. The stance the Equal Employment Opportunity ...