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Oregon Protestors Rally Against Drug Test Background Checks

Supports of the Medical Marijuana practice in Oregon rallied against House Bill 2982.  According to Fox 12 in Oregon, if passed House Bill 2982 would require background checks on all existing medical marijuana cardholders and new applicants. Sounds easy enough. The catch is, if background checks reveal any criminal convictions, too bad.  The medical marijuana permit […]

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Beware of Employment Scams and Revealing Background Checks

While the economy is showing some sign of recovery, it is still hard times for millions of people.  There are those who have been laid off the job and have been out of work for months, even years.   There are those employees where the entire industry dropped out from under them and now they […]

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Drug Testing Background Checks to Prevent Drug Use in the Workplace

I guess the good news about drug use is that cocaine usage has declined in the past couple of years.   In fact, cocaine usage has declined some twenty nine percent.  Only about one third of one percent of the population uses cocaine, or so the story goes. Now for the other news…heroin use has […]

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Background Checks to Avoid Fines and to Help Vet Undocumented Workers

The federal government is continuing its crackdown on undocumented workers.  Makes sense with the economy still pretty lousy and with eligible workers in desperate need of jobs.  With unemployment at the mid-nines to ten percent, it would stand to reason that the federal government would like to see eligible workers off the unemployment rolls and back in the workforce. […]