Hiring

Immigration enforcement focusing on smaller firms, criminal arrests

05/15/2008

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) grabbed headlines in the past year with large-scale immigration raids at big companies. But now that ICE has more trained officers and better coordination with other agencies, it’s targeting more small businesses, too …

Pre-Employment tests: Do yours meet the new EEOC guidelines?

05/15/2008

In December, the EEOC issued new guidance on employment tests and selection procedures under three laws: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. The key to complying is to make sure each employment test is directly job-related and focuses on business necessity …

Roskam seeks better tax credits as incentive to hire veterans

05/14/2008

U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam, who represents Illinois’ 6th Congressional District west of Chicago, is spearheading efforts to make it easier for employers to get tax credits for hiring veterans of the war in Iraq …

The pitfalls of providing references

05/13/2008

Q. Why is it that so many companies refuse to give references for former employees? …

Workers’ lawsuit says hotel owners enslaved them

05/13/2008

Four Filipino immigrants have filed a federal lawsuit accusing a pair of Oacoma, S.D., hotel owners of subjecting them to conditions of slavery, forced labor, trafficking in persons and peonage—essentially indentured servitude …

Background checks don’t protect anyone if they’re ignored

05/12/2008

With four—that’s right, four—teachers charged with sexual misconduct in the Hillsborough School District this school year, residents and board members are questioning the district’s screening and hiring procedures …

‘Freelance’ job turns out to be a real killer

05/09/2008

Murder-for-hire isn’t your usual freelance fare, but three California residents who answered a generic ad for “freelance” work were asked to do just that …

Cops: Disgruntled cross-Dresser rams lingerie store

05/09/2008

Police say a cross-dresser who was denied a job at Intimate Ideas lingerie store expressed his anger by allegedly ramming the storefront with his Geo Tracker …

Staffing company owes $3 million to guest workers

05/07/2008

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has directed Advanced Professional Marketing Inc. (APMI), a medical staffing company based in New York City, to pay almost $3 million in back wages to more than 150 H-1B guest workers …

Background checks, employee investigations and the FCRA

05/06/2008

Employers that use third parties (referred to in the law as credit reporting agencies, or CRAs) to perform background checks and investigations need to be aware of the requirements of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) …