The state is revamping background checks for Nevada Transportation Authority officers after the Las Vegas Review-Journal revealed one officer had three drunken driving arrests and crashed a state vehicle into a parked car, fleeing the scene. Bruce H. Breslow, director of the Nevada Department of...
Changes on the Horizon to DOT Drug Testing Rules Back in January, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) dropped its random drug testing rate from 50% to 25%. This comes as a result of low failure rates during the years 2011-13, if we want...
In the past, new teachers were allowed to step into the classroom, prior to the city council receiving a PVG [Protecting Vulnerable Groups] form from Disclosure Scotland, which ensures people are suitable to work with children and vulnerable people. Under the scheme, which has been...
By Cody Stavenhagen Tulsa World Way back in 2006, not long after the University of Oklahoma became one of the country’s first athletic departments to institute formal background checks for prospective student-athletes, OU athletic director Joe Castiglione was quoted in the Marquette Sports Law Review. “We...
The three people involved in a fatal Amtrak crash near Philadelphia last April tested positive for drug use -- the train's engineer and two members of a railway work crew who both were killed, according to federal investigators. The engineer, Alexander Hunter, 48, who survived...
(Newswire.net -- January 18, 2017) -- The added income from a rental property can look very appealing to a young entrepreneur or someone seeking assistance with property payments. A first-time landlord should be acutely aware of the broad spectrum of duties expected from a rental...
Colorado lawmakers have a chance to pass some important and relatively straightforward reforms this session that would help protect patients and at-risk adults. We take comfort in the fact that a pair of legislative efforts is in the works to do just that. We argued...
HENDERSON CO., KY (WFIE) - Parents of middle and high school students received letters this week informing them students will be randomly drug tested. School board officials confirmed to us on Friday the drug-screening program will be implemented for the 2017-2018 school year. We got a hold...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — All Indiana teachers would have to undergo a criminal background check every five years under a bill endorsed by an Indiana legislative committee. The proposal approved unanimously Tuesday by the House Education Committee toughens current requirements that teachers only face such checks when...
I frequently get asked whether pre-employment tests and background checks are legal. The short answer is yes. Companies can test applicants for employment. The longer answer is that the tests must be non-discriminatory and the tests must be properly administered. Types of Pre-Employment Testing and...
Because an employee has greater access to your resources, they are 15 times more likely than a non-employee to steal from you. This loss lessens your competitive edge; it also threatens to put you in the one-third of all business failures that happen due to employee theft.
Owners Jim & Leeanne Mills envisioned making business owners’ lives easier by taking Background Screening, Drug Screening, & Job Applicant Assessment burdens off their plates.
After 21 years of Naval service riding nuclear submarines, we traded in our Navy life and then we worked in the For-Profit Education Industry hiring employees, managers & professors. While hiring new employees our experience using the available Background Check Process proved to be a very time consuming, challenging, frustrating and difficult one.
