Archive for the 'Retaining Employees' Category

New Credit Report Statutes Affect Employment Background Checks

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 [...]

Credit Reports as Pre-Employment Background Checks

It should be no secret that with is economic downturn and slow recovery many job applicants have lousy credit.   Even those employment candidates who once had decent to excellent credit scores find themselves wanting, having been laid off or otherwise pressed for cash.   A bad economy can take you from upscale to downscale in a [...]

Conduct Background Checks for Workplace Violence

Everybody flocks to a fight.   From the schoolyard to the factory, nothing like a fistfight to bring people together.  It must be part of human nature to be attracted to two people going at it in the old school fashion.  Even in the workplace, it gives people something to talk about for weeks.   And when [...]

Nebraska Dept of Corrections to Expand Its Background Checks

Despite the economic crunch on states and their budgetary constraints, the Nebraska Department of Corrections is expanding its list of background checks to be screen its employment candidates. Undoubtedly, this is a very good thing, as the more background checks The decision to expand the preemployment screening process came after it was revealed a working [...]