Sometimes background checks will filter out the potential red flag employment candidates, and sometimes an employee with a clean record will decide to great creative once they have a job they feel they can leverage illegally for personal gain.   Especially in times of a tough economy when money is short and people have outspent their [...]

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Some background checking and employment news is a lot more interesting than others.  The Post-Tribune, which supports the greater Chicago area, reported that the Portage, Indiana Police Chief believed that new rulings allowing employees  to carry weapons to the workplace, provided they keep them in their car, will not lead to more violence on the [...]

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Vadim Lieberman has written a most interesting article, entitled Workers Behaving Badly, published on The Conference Board Review,  the writer discusses the zero tolerance policy that many employers have implemented since the economic meltdown.    Lieberman discusses some interesting points about how a certain laxity with petty office theft may vent more serious transgressions in the [...]

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By now most of us have heard of Jihad Jane.   Jane is a blond haired blue eyed, high school dropout who converted to Islam and allegedly believed her life was best spent assisting fundamentalist terrorists by helping them kill their perceived enemies and otherwise providing material support.    She helped recruit other Westerners of similar proclivities [...]

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