Archive for August, 2010

When Employee Theft Busts Out Your Business

Thanks partly to the economic downturn, employee theft is up big time.  I don’t know for sure if people are so strapped financially they make desperate moves by stealing property databases, cash, and serious amount of inventory, or if there is a trendy concept floating about that that declares we should forget about ethics and [...]

New Mexico to Increase Pricing on its Motor Vehicle Records Driving Reports

Motor Vehicle Records Driving Reports or MVRs are a critical background check.  Transportation and Trucking companies require them to meet with Department of Transportation or DOT mandates. It is no secret that the Departments of Motor Vehicles or DMVs have been raising prices in most states.  In an economic downturn it is certainly one way to [...]

The Limits of Grades on Education Background Checks

Over time recruiters have been pressed to be increasingly stringent about their employment candidates and their respective college degrees.  Be it undergraduate degrees or graduate degrees,  a great many companies want their job applicants to have graduated from he top ten schools at the top of their class with the top references and ratings.    Even those [...]

Background Checks for the Medical Marijuana Permit

There is much controversy and many legal battled are taking place in the states that have legitimized medical marijuana.    As most of the laws were defined pretty loosely,  there is a debate regarding the employee’s rights to come to work having imbibed some medical marijuana and the employer to determine whether that same employee is fit to work on [...]