In response to the controversy surrounding the practice of employers requesting Facebook log-in information from both current and prospective employees, the social network has made itself perfectly clear: Facebook will protect your privacy — even if it means going to court. In a March 23 note on the social network’s Facebook and Privacy page, Chief [...]
On March 1, 2012 a Medford jury rendered a verdict in a wrongful death case against a broker for $10,000 in non-economic damages (aka pain and suffering) and $1,678,000 in punitive damages. Although the jury also found the driver liable for $40,000 in non-economic damages and $3,471,000 in punitive damages, the lessons to be learned [...]
Dear readers: I came across this email pasted below and thought it is something you all should be aware of. Just when we thought it was safe to go back into the water, here is what I predict to be the first in a new area of Plaintiff’s pursuits: *************************Begin Law Offices of Devin H. [...]
Social Security Number (SSN) verification is one method that is used for employment screening purposes because it allows employers to verify the information submitted by a prospect employee with official Social Security records, as well as other information sources. It is most effectively used in concert with other methods of Positive Candidate Identification, in order [...]
It’s official, according to the latest EEOC presenter at Mid-Year meeting of the National Association of Professional Background Screeners in Orlando, Florida the EEOC and government decision-makers will not hesitate to look you straight in the eye and tell you that criminal conviction checks should be eliminated from the determination of employment candidacy in the [...]
Yesterday an Oregon jury returned a large verdict against a trucking brokerage company for its negligent hiring of a drug addict. The jury awarded over $5 million, including punitive damages, to the family of a man killed in 2008 because the broker failed to do any due diligence when it hired Washington Transportation to hire [...]
The California Supreme Court issued a decision yesterday in C.A. v. William S. Hart Union High School Dist. (May 8, 2012, S188982) __Cal.4th__, ruling that school districts may be held liable if a supervisory or administrative employee is found to have negligently exposed a student to a foreseeable danger of molestation by a school employee. [...]
Benefit plan administrators in-house or third-party administrators, often need to locate people who terminate employment without leaving a forwarding address and have benefits due from a qualified plan. By law, these companies must perform due diligence in attempting to locate a lost plan participant in order to meet ERISA, GATT, IRS requirements. Unfortunately, the IRS [...]
In the latest barrage of attacks against the Human Resources Management side of American business, the EEOC just levied a $3+ million fine against PepsiCo targeting discrimination in the background check process. Here is yet another example of the EEOC singling out major companies to put forth its agenda of constructively terminating American business’s inalienable [...]
The Minnesota Department of Commerce continued its efforts this week to keep convicted felons out of the pocketbooks of Minnesota consumers. Commissioner Mike Rothman took action against 49 debt collection agencies nationwide that are owned and operated by NCO Financial Systems, Inc. According to the Department’s investigation, the company allegedly failed to properly screen employees [...]
Thomas C. Lawson, CFE, CII
CEO, APSCREEN
Negligent Hiring Expert Witness
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