Recently, more and more states and public service agencies have mandated background checks for those employees who work with the vulnerable.    The vulnerable may be regarded as the elderly,  youngsters, and those who are infirmed or physically or mentally impaired.   In fact, even the states and public service agencies who did order background checks despite [...]

Of all the background checks we conduct at Corra Group none are more controversial than the employment credit report.    I have posted on this a number of times, one such report was entitled,  Follow Up on Credit Background Checks, discussed the ongoing issues of a tough economy and the attempt to limit employer usage of [...]

You know you have some serious issues when you are a hospital and you are cited for not adequately defending your employees from workplace violence.    According to an article in Occupation Health and Safety, Danbury Hospital, in Danbury, Connecticut was cited after an OSHA inspection,  in response to employee complaints about dangers in the workplace.   There were incidents were [...]

Everyone is into social media.   Be it businesses who wish to market and advertise through social media channels, or just plain folk wanting to tell all their Facebook Friends the exciting news about what they had for lunch, the world is into social media.   Social media is fun.  It is in fact a [...]