Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Employers conducting background checks on prospective employees have to worry about the sharp rise in the number of class action lawsuits
filed by job applicants over alleged technical violations of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).
«Until the study on Facebook and job performance is published, it is difficult to assess how defensible the study would be if a lawsuit were
filed by a job applicant as a result of a «failure to hire» because of the use of Facebook for employment screening.»
Not exact matches
Administering informal and formal programs to resolve EEO complaints
filed by DOT employees and DOT
job applicants, to include using Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) methods, such as mediation, to assist in the fair and early resolution of complaints.
But make sure to read the
job ad carefully and check if PDFs are accepted - sometimes resumes are scanned
by Applicant Tracking Software bots which can choke on a PDF
file.
More so, it may also be used
by applicants for rank - and -
file job positions where the term executive is used as a replacement for the terms personnel, officer, or assistant.
The AGs» letter addresses the lawsuits
filed by the EEOC against Dollar General and BMW that alleged that the companies» use of «bright - line» criminal background checks to eliminate
job applicants was discriminatory.
Posted
by Erin Kennedy, MCD, CMRW, CPRW on Friday, May 10, 2013 at 2:07 pm
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The State of Texas has
filed suit against the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) over Guidance for use of criminal records of
job applicants by employers for criminal background checks that may exclude convicted felons from employment.
This professional
file clerk cover letter sample does a good
job of keeping the focus on what the employer needs as opposed to what the
applicant needs, and you want to abide
by that principle.