On April 28, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a blog article entitled “Background checks on prospective employees: Keep required disclosures simple.” 1 The FTC is one of the two federal ...

If you’ve applied for a job lately, you may have been asked to fill out a form authorizing your prospective employer to conduct a background check on you. Here is an excerpt from an employment ...

Background checks have been a tool for employers to use to screen applicants for quite some time. However, recently there have been many changes and an increase in litigation in the background check ...

Big companies such as Amazon, Target and Wells Fargo have faced a barrage of lawsuits alleging they conducted background checks on job candidates or employees in violation of federal law. Over the ...