California is on a roll with new employment-related laws effective January 1, 2018. The latest relates to salary history disclosures by job applicants. There is essentially a complete prohibition on an employer, either orally...more
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP is pleased to provide you with the Compliance News Flash, brought to you each Friday. This weekly update is your source for timely background screening and immigration-related news that is important...more
Assembly Bill 450, signed by Governor Brown in October of 2017, is effective this month. It imposes several new immigration-related responsibilities on California employers with respect to worksite enforcement actions and...more
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP is pleased to provide you with the Compliance News Flash, brought to you each Friday. This weekly update is your source for timely background screening and immigration-related news that is important...more
12/18/2017
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Ban the Box ,
Criminal Background Checks ,
Cybersecurity ,
E-Verify ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Standing ,
Temporary Protected Status ,
USCIS
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP is pleased to provide you with the Compliance News Flash, brought to you each Friday. This weekly update is your source for timely background screening and immigration-related news that is important...more
7/21/2017
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Criminal Background Checks ,
Criminal Records ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Pay ,
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Applicants ,
Local Ordinance ,
Salary/Wage History ,
Wage and Hour
San Francisco’s Board of Supervisor’s passed a pay equity ordinance on July 11, 2017 which is now awaiting the Mayor’s signature. The “Parity in Pay” ordinance will become operative July 1, 2018. The ordinance will ban...more
This week’s news flash – a quick overview of timely background screening and immigration-related news that is important to your organization.
1. The ongoing saga of the President’s executive order to implement a travel ban...more
This week’s news flash – a quick overview of timely background screening and immigration-related news that is important to your organization.
1. For those tracking the presidential executive orders commonly referred to as...more
This week’s news flash – a quick overview of timely background screening and immigration-related news that is important to your organization.
- New York City joins Philadelphia and Massachusetts in enacting a measure to...more
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed legislation prohibiting employers from inquiring about a prospective employee’s salary history during the hiring process. New York City joins Massachusetts and Philadelphia in passing...more
This week’s news flash – a quick overview of timely background screening and immigration-related news that is important to your organization.
- This week Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) introduced the FCRA Liability...more
Today’s fun fact – as an employer you cannot ask employees to provide a specific document or documents when completing section 2 of the Form I-9 (the Employment Eligibility Verification form). Remember, all employers must...more
This week’s news flash – a quick overview of timely background screening and immigration-related news that is important to your organization.
1. Old news is that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued...more
Are you an employer that conducts pre-employment background checks for new hires, or maybe background checks for existing employees for promotion, reassignment or retention purposes? Ever randomly wonder if you can use that...more
This week’s news flash – a quick overview of timely background screening and immigration-related news that is important to your organization.
1. On February 28 at 3 pm EST Montserrat Miller, a Partner with Arnall Golden...more
A series of recent class action complaints against employers leads me to write about what employers can do to mitigate risk with respect to their background screening program.
I’m talking about pre-employment background...more
This week’s news flash – a quick overview of timely background screening and immigration-related news that is important to your organization.
1. Expect activity at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in...more
The wait is over! U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has issued an updated M-274, Handbook for Employers which provides guidance on completion of the Form I-9 and an overview of unlawful discrimination and...more
Los Angeles is the latest major city to pass a Ban the Box measure (Ordinance 184652) applicable to private employers. It will become effective January 22, 2017 and will be enforced beginning in July 2017. ...more
All wrapped up in a pretty little bow, just in time for the holidays and holiday hiring! U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) has finally issued the revised Employment Eligibility Verification form (“Form...more
Background checks for employment screening purposes may contain different information. Most common would be the use of criminal history information, but there are times when an employer requests that their background...more
For those employers anxiously awaiting the “new” Form I-9 (the Employment Eligibility Verification Form) the wait continues but we are getting closer. On August 25th the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) cleared the...more
After a battle of motions between the parties, on August 9th a Wisconsin federal judge dismissed a proposed class action for alleged violations under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) against Cory Groshek. Why is this...more
Colorado-based employers know that when they onboard an employee one of the compliance related items that must be completed relates to the Employment Eligibility Verification form (Form I-9) and the Colorado Affirmation Form....more
Nineteen companies joined President Obama as founding companies of the White House’s Fair Chance Business Pledge. According to the White House Fact Sheet, “The pledge represents a call-to-action for all members of the...more