Has your company decided yet whether it will conduct criminal
background or credit checks? If you are already using that tool as
part of your job screening process, are you keeping up with legal
developments in every city, county or state where you do business
to verify whether "ban the box" laws are being
considered? Is your company a government contractor? If so, are you
aware that 100 members of the U.S. Congress support legislation to
apply "ban the box" to government contractors?
The background check landscape continues to evolve and change.
There is intense scrutiny at the state and local level, as well as
in Congress, at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
(EEOC) and the Federal Trade Commission, which enforces the Fair
Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and the very strict notice and
documentation requirements in that law. As we have written before,
staying on top of the
legal requirements and restrictions, and the variations among
them, can be
