Civil records can contain valuable character information when evaluating applicants. But civil records also have drawbacks. A civil case occurs when one party sues another. A criminal case is initiated by the District Attorney’s office. Unlike a criminal case, a civil case is typically about money or other damages. A civil case usually involves one […]

On January 3, 2019, Delta Air Lines agreed to pay $2.3 million to settle an FCRA class action lawsuit that claimed the major U.S. airline allegedly failed to provide job applicants with a “standalone” background check disclosure in violation of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and related California state laws. The actual case […]

An illegal liability release is the source of a complaint against The Leland Stanford Junior University. The organization apparently failed to comply with some very basic requirements of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. We have mentioned in a previous blog that it is illegal to insert a liability release into your application process. From the […]

Falsifying information on your hiring application should result in immediate removal from the hiring process. Why? Individuals who lie to you and your organization on this most basic and important company document will most likely lie to you and your organization if you move forward with hiring them. We have written a previous blog post […]

Don’t over react to ban the box legislation by totaling removing a question about an individual’s prior criminal convictions from your hiring process after accepting the initial application. We had a client so concerned about avoiding any liability associated with ban the box legislation that they removed the question about previous criminal convictions altogether. If […]