Tag: applicant rights

Employer and Candidate Rights An employer has every right to require that their candidates undergo a background check, to ask direct questions about their qualifications in the interview process, and to make hiring decisions based on the information that they find. But they must do so while complying with certain federal, state, and municipal laws that […]

You run background checks in the first place to protect your company assets. So when something turns up that causes concern, it is important to take adverse action as conscientiously as you did the process of running a background check. For example, before conducting a background check on a prospective employee (also called a consumer […]

Conducting employee screening and background checks is such a common practice these days that a basic check can be done for less than $20. More complex investigations, known as investigative consumer reports (ICRs), are much pricier and are often conducted on candidates of high-level positions.    But regardless of the type of background check being […]