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California enacts slew of employment-related laws 

Published: October 27, 2011

Tags: background checks, credit checks, E-verify, family leave, gender discrimination, Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act, health insurance. GINA

California recently enacted a number of employment-related laws, including a requirement to provide health insurance during family leave and adding gender identification and genetic information as protected categories from discrimination.

Popular job-screening practice provokes new lawsuits 

By: Sylvia Hsieh
Published: January 27, 2011

Tags: background checks, credit checks, credit screening, disparate impact, EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Kaplan Higher Education

Employers are coming under increasing scrutiny and are now facing freshly filed lawsuits over credit screenings of job applicants.

State bans criminal history questions on job applications 

By: Sylvia Hsieh
Published: September 8, 2010

Tags: background checks

Employers in Massachusetts must overhaul their job applications in light of a new law that changes the rules on criminal history background checks.

EEOC cracks down on background check-related job bias claims 

By: Kimberly Atkins
Published: August 13, 2010

Tags: background checks, credit checks, disparate impact, EEOC, employment discrimination

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is stepping up scrutiny of hiring policies – including the use of criminal background and credit checks – that can have a negative impact on members of minority groups.

Jurors on trial

By: Correy Stephenson
Published: July 3, 2006

Tags: background checks, jurors, jury research

Richard Gabriel, a trial consultant and president of Decision Analysis in Los Angeles, said juror background checks are definitely on the rise.

But others expressed concerns about juror privacy and the lack of regulation if parties do conduct background checks.