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Judge Gives NASA Lesson on Background Checks
NASA scientists, engineers, and administrative support personnel believed newly- implemented background checks were unlawful, claiming NASA lacked authority to implement them and was invading personal privacy. After unsuccessfully seeking injunction in federal district court, they ultimately prevailed when Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversed, ordering district court to grant injunction prohibiting implementation of new procedures. Although directly applicable to public sector employment, case is useful reminder of importance of keeping background checks and interview questions relevant and focused.
Employers Using Facebook for Background Checking, Part III
Employment decisions based on information from social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook raise many interesting legal questions. Today, I’ll look at a few possible discrimination issues that suggest such sources should be used with caution.
Perceptive readers may note that the last post was Part I. What, then, became of Part II? [...]
EEOC, OFCCP debate discrimination in recruiting and hiring
A recruiter friend, Karen Mattonen, tells me that many recruiters are becoming more eager to learn about discrimination laws as they become more aware of the legal risks inherent in their activities.
The stakes are increasing as candidates become more sophisticated and the new EEOC and OFCCP rules for compliance go into effect.
Last year, Karen [...]
Employers Using Facebook for Background Checking: Is It Legal?
As a partial excuse for my lack of posts the last couple of days, I’m linking to a guest post I just completed for Steve Rothberg over at CollegeRecruiter.com, entitled: “Employers Using Facebook for Background Checking: Is It Legal?”
While you’re there, check out the site, if you haven’t already done so. It’s a blog [...]
Suing Competitors for Using Illegals
A new trend: businesses suing competitors for hiring illegal workers to achieve an unfair advantage.
In the first of a series of lawsuits, a temporary employment agency that supplies farm workers sued a grower and two competing companies on Monday.
Similar cases claiming violations of federal anti-racketeering laws have yielded mixed results. The California lawsuit is believed [...]
