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		<title>When Unemployment Slips You a Mickey&#8230;Mouse</title>
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It&#8217;s a tough job market and competition for what few jobs there are is fierce.   According to the Los Angeles Times, the different amusement parks around Southern California have had record turnouts at their job fairs.    This would  include such iconic amusement destinations as the Disney parks, Six Flags, and Universal Studios.
Thousand of job [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dailyplanet.corragroup.com/2010/03/when-unemployment-slips-you-a-mickey-mouse/</link>
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		<title>Employer Gets Ten Year Prison Sentence for Hiring Undocumented Workers</title>
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We have been warning employers about hiring undocumented workers for a couple of years now.  Hiring workers you may suspect as being illegal or undocumented, choose your own preferential language, can lead expensive fines, business shutdowns and public embarrassment.  There are more than a few examples out there.
I have blogged about this before.  For one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dailyplanet.corragroup.com/2010/03/employer-gets-ten-year-prison-sentence-for-hiring-undocumented-workers/</link>
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		<title>Drug Tests for Older Employees</title>
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All right, so this is really tongue in cheek.  Well, sort of.   Having recently read an article on Yahoo News, entitled Marijuana Use By Seniors Goes Up As Boomers Age,  I couldn&#8217;t help but wonder what most employers would do if they find out through preemployment drug tests that their more senior executives are huffing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dailyplanet.corragroup.com/2010/03/drug-tests-for-older-employees/</link>
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		<title>Driving Records and Education Verification Background Checks</title>
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Alot of employers conduct a very thorough and comprehensive series of background checks and part of their preemployment screening program.   Others try to cut costs and make assumptions that may come back to bite them.   Assumptions in this world can lead a business to ruin.  If not to ruin, then they can be very costly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dailyplanet.corragroup.com/2010/03/driving-records-and-education-verification-background-checks/</link>
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		<title>Background Checks Could Thwart Employee Theft</title>
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Employees will steal from you.   This is no secret.   Some employees will steal the small stuff like pens and paper.    Others will steal the more important things, like proprietary information and sensitive databases.   These are the things that can be embarrassing and costly, if stolen.
According to The Sydney Morning Herald, a security guard was in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dailyplanet.corragroup.com/2010/03/background-checks-could-thwart-employee-theft/</link>
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		<title>Background Checks to Weed Out Workplace Bullies</title>
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I was reading a recent article about how WorkSafe in Australia  will be going to more than 40,000 employers to educated their employees on workplace violence and workplace bullies.   It is a pretty daunting task and one that takes awhile, as they interview staffers and provide training.
This decision comes after one poor soul was driven [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dailyplanet.corragroup.com/2010/03/background-checks-to-weed-out-workplace-bullies/</link>
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		<title>Background Checks and the Criminal &#8220;Prayer&#8221; Sentence</title>
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When reviewing background checks most criminal records reveal a commonplace  disposition.    We find when reviewing the criminal records that jail sentences can range from suspended sentences and deferred sentences, to fines, a little bit of jail time, or lengthy prison sentences, depending on the crime.   This, of course, is when the suspect is found guilty, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dailyplanet.corragroup.com/2010/03/background-checks-and-the-criminal-prayer-sentence/</link>
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		<title>New Jersey Township to Require Background Checks</title>
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Maurice River Township will require background checks for employees in the municipality.     Maurice River Township is located in New Jersey.   According to the article in the Cumberland County News, while the ordinance was introduced, it is not clear who would conduct the background checks and which employment candidates would require a background check.
It is good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dailyplanet.corragroup.com/2010/03/new-jersey-township-to-require-background-checks/</link>
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		<title>Nevada County Background Checks Court Rate Changes</title>
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County Criminal records are an important element to conducting background checks as part of any preemployment screening program.    It is all but mandated that the employer run country criminal searches, and in the case of employment candidates who are senior executives, the county civil records search is highly desirable.  the county civil records search will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dailyplanet.corragroup.com/2010/03/nevada-county-background-checks-court-rate-changes/</link>
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		<title>Residential Care Workers Slip Through Background Checks</title>
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With an economy in the downturn, eveyrone is trying to cut corners.  But sometimes when you cut corners the few bucks you save up front may result in a series of consequences, not the least of them being expensive litigation.   In the case of residential care homes in Oklahoma, background checks are mandated for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dailyplanet.corragroup.com/2010/02/residential-care-workers-slip-through-background-checks/</link>
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