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Employers Using Facebook for Background Checking: Is It Legal?

Written on 1 Sep, 2006 at 9:09

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... (Continue reading)

Suing Competitors for Using Illegals

Written on 24 Aug, 2006 at 1:09

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... (Continue reading)

More on Employers’ Immigration Obligations

Written on 26 Jul, 2006 at 23:31

Yesterday, I wrote about immigration. Today, I happened on a few related items. First, while looking at back issues of the St. Louis Bar Journal, for which I am preparing an article, I found: “A Brief Overview of the United States... (Continue reading)

Some Immigration Law Tips for Employers

Written on 25 Jul, 2006 at 23:50

Congress seems to be stuck in the process of passing much-needed immigration law reform. But employers must still comply with existing law — an obligation that can get sticky. I ran across an article that briefly summarizes employers’ obligations... (Continue reading)

Disparate TREATMENT vs. Disparate IMPACT

Written on 5 Jun, 2006 at 21:16

Some otherwise very knowledgeable and smart HR folks, and perhaps even lawyers, may have difficulty understanding the difference between disparate treatment and disparate impact. Indeed, in some old Supreme Court cases, the supreme court justices appeared to begin to merge... (Continue reading)

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