How You Can & Can’t Use a Background Check

  While background information can be invaluable when making personnel decisions—such as work history, medical history, education, financial history—­employers must understand the laws they must comply with to protect employees and employee candidates from discrimination. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) maintains regulations to ensure that discrimination does not occur, and enforces federal employment discrimination […]

The Internet is swarming with reports of the recently discovered Heartbleed bug. This bug is a security vulnerability affecting many servers and network appliances. Occasionally, security issues such as these require that we take action to protect the security and integrity of our customers and their data during production hours. TazWorks immediately contacted their software […]

Up and coming basketball Coach Steve Masiello was living the dream, his team the Manhattan Jaspers were regaining their former glory and he was slated to be the new coach at the University of South Florida, when it was discovered in a routine background check that Masiello has falsified his resume. Although Masiello had attended […]