In February 2015 the General Accounting Office (GAO) released a report listing additional actions to enhance the completeness of FBI criminal records. Many people have been arrested and fingerprinted and photographed. Think about it, anyone can get arrested for almost anything. Perhaps charges were never filed, the case in almost half the records in the […]
Falsification – An Employer’s Right to Take Adverse Action
Significant falsification of a company’s document allows that company to withdraw an individual from the hiring process. There is much written and discussed about EEOC and Fair Credit Reporting Act rules and regulations surrounding the proper use of background investigations. What is sometimes lost is the fact that any employer has an absolute right to […]
Marijuana for Medical Purposes and the Workplace
You have an employee in your workplace using marijuana for medical purposes. How do you react? Whenever I do a seminar and the topic turns to drug testing, inevitably the question of what to do in a state that allows medical marijuana arises. So, let’s address it through the lens of an actual question that […]
Failure to Communicate – Putting Human Resources and Finance on the Same Page
“What we have here is a failure to communicate.” Paul Newman made a movie in 1967 called Cool Hand Luke. Paul Newman is in prison and is being punished by the warden. There seems to be a communication breakdown between them. That’s when the warden coins that phrase to describe the bitterness between them. How […]
Freeman wins EEOC lawsuit, again! This time in the US 4th Circuit Court of Appeals
On February 20, 2015 the US 4th Circuit Court of Appeals (covering MD, VA, WA, NC & SC) found in favor of Freeman who was defending against an EEOC lawsuit. In the case of EEOC v. Freeman the court considered a class action lawsuit pursued by the EEOC challenging the employer’s use of certain background […]
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