Having been burned by an embarrassing and disturbing  sexual assault incident, Match.com has agreed to conduct background checks on its members.   According to the article in the Daily Pilot a woman was raped on her second date with a Match.com partner.  As it turns out, the assailant had six prior sexual assault convictions.   [...]

Normally, I would be writing about background checks here.   But for those who don’t know me, I have had for years a literary life outside of employment screening.  And since my new novel, The Blood Orange, was just published, I figured i would post something about it here. Minstrel’s Alley is the publishing group [...]

The increase of workplace violence is quite alarming.  Some try to explain it away and attribute some of the violent incidents in the workplace to domestic disputes that aren’t really work related but incidents of domestic origin  where the spouse or lover enters the office of his significant other and creates violence.    These particular [...]

Sex offenders need not apply to Match.com for a membership.   Since the reported sexual assault, Match.com will be conducting background checks on its membership.  An article in the Gothamist describe the unsavory and violent ordeal a woman experienced having agreed to go out with a man on Match.com.     The article said the man had [...]