Show me the FCRA Disclosure to the applicant or else pay $100 to $1000 per claimant. Sound harsh? The Fair Credit Reporting Act is very clear. It states a person may not procure a consumer report, or cause a consumer report to be procured, for employment purposes with respect to any consumer, unless a clear […]
Marijuana’s Detrimental Effects and Unfulfilled Promises
Marijuana’s detrimental effects and unfulfilled promises continue to be exposed. Why is that an important statement? Because its proponents continue to make unfounded claims about its medically-healing properties and its need to be legalized. They ignore death and destruction that increased access to this drug have caused. Employers should be aware of these facts particularly […]
Another Non-Compliant Company Bites the Dust and Agrees to Pay…..
Another non-compliant company bites the dust and agrees to a $2.7 million-dollar pay-out to settle a class action lawsuit alleging the company violated the Fair Credit Report Act. There are obvious broadly-reported FCRA violations in the lawsuit and related news articles. We will of course cover those in this blog post a bit down the […]
Are employer drug-testing programs obsolete?
Should employers discontinue drug-testing programs? Recently two experts debated this topic in an article in the June/July/August 2018 issue of HR Magazine. The article is only available to members of SHRM. One expert, Jim Reidy, an employment lawyer and shareholder in the Manchester, N.H., office of Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green PA, argued that employer-drug […]
Lack of FCRA Disclosure equals a $2.4 Million Settlement
Lack of an FCRA Disclosure has cost Frito-Lay a $2.4 Million Settlement in response to a class action lawsuit. The lawsuit Frito-Lay Agrees to Pay $2.4 Million to Settle FCRA Violation alleges that the company violated the Disclosure Requirements in the Fair Credit Reporting Act [ 15 U.S.C. §§ 1681 b(b )(2)(A)] when they conducted background […]
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