Month: June 2011

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Corra Group Adds Background Checking Products For Increased Business Research Demands

Here is a new public relations release that addresses the increased need for international background checks.  this is especially the case with education verificaitons and employment verification, as more than a few of your employment candidates maybe be telling tall tales about their education and work experience.   In fact, they could be lying through their teeth.

 

Anyway, find below and excerpt from the relase.   Here is the link for the full article].

 

Corra Group has expanded its corporate research services to address the increased need for financial vetting on the part of American businesses. The background checking services offers a full range of various business research reports that will assist businesses in producing goods and services for both the domestic and international markets. The background checks range from corporate credit reports, to civil and criminal background checks on corporate principles and the entities themselves.

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New Hampshire Courts to Close July 1st for the Fourth of July Holiday Weekend

The New Hampshire County Courts will be closed on Friday, July 1st through Monday July 4th, for the Fourth of July holidays.   The courts will reopen on July 5th but for those conducting county criminal records and county civil records as background checks for their employment screening programs, expect a slight delay due to the backlog from the two day closure.

All courts in the United States will be closed on Monday, July 4th for Independence Day.

 

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Background Checks Economy Human Resources Miscellany Staffing Uncategorized

Orland School District to Use Sex Offender Background Check

Illinois’ Orland School District 135 Board of Education will look into adding a requirement that board members submit to background check before they could serve.  The new proposal would keep convicted sex offenders from becoming members of the school board.

This new proposal reflects the policy that the school board is intent on protecting its children.    That is serious in screening its board members through background checks.

We believe this a wise move and a proactive one.  The worst thing for school boards and public service agencies is to conduct these background checks only after someone is assaulted and it is learned in the aftermath the assailant has a previous conviction for sex crimes.  So we applaud the effort on the part of the Orland School Board.

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New York Hotel to Give Maids Panic Alarms

Hotel Maids or service people long had a tough job augmented by dangers that were often subdued and kept from the glare of the media.  But since  IMF Head, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was accused of sexually assaulting the hotel maid at the Pierre Hotel, in New York City,  the dangers of working in the large hotels have come to light.

Now the instance of assault or even sexual advancements are relatively few when stacked up against the sheer volume of hotels and the number of hotel guests in any given week.   The general rule is that hotel maids are free to go on about their work with guests pressing upon them for little more than an extra towel.   But then with most general rules there are exceptions.   There are times when guests do solicit the maid for sexual favors.  There are fewer times when the guests may get physical.

Now a second New York hotel housekeeper has also made an accusation.  In response, according to the Wall Street Journal, the Pierre and Sofitel Hotels will now provide their housekeepers with wireless devices to alert managers if they are attacked.  The housekeeping union wants these wire devices made available to the hotel maids in 150 of New York’s hotels.

According to the Journal, “The problem of hotel maids being inappropriately groped or propositioned has been known for a long time,” said Rory Lancman, a New York state assemblyman from Queens. “They need to have as much protection as possible, and that means equipment and that means policies that protect them.”

Law enforcement recommends that assaults against maids not be delayed but reported as soon as possible.   Prompt reports will yield much more accurate forensic evidence.