There is an ongoing controversy in several states about whether or not employers should run credit reports s part of the background checks they use in their preemployment screening programs.   I have posted some thoughts on this subject in a recent blog,  Controversy Over Credit Reports as Background Checks. Some critics of the credit report [...]

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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 [...]

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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’t help but wonder what most employers would do if they find out through preemployment drug tests that their more senior executives are huffing [...]

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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 [...]

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