Posted in Current Events, tagged background check, background screening, e-verify, empoyee screening, empoyment verification, everify, everify program, senate, stimulus bill, us stimulus on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A controversial provision of the recently passed $787 billion stimulus bill, which would have required companies receiving stimulus funds to sign-up for and use the E-Verify system to verify employment authorization for new hires, was removed during House-Senate negotiations.
The provision had been proposed as a means to ensure that jobs created by the stimulus bill [...]
Posted in Current Events, tagged economic crisis, economic policy, fannie mae, foreclosure plan, foreclosure prevention plan, fredie mac, housing market, HUD, obama, obama policy, president obama, us economy on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In an effort to get mortgage servicers to more aggressively rewrite loans and potentially help seven to nine million homeowners meet mortgage payments, this week the President announced his policy to shore up the housing market.
The plan offers a series of targeted interventions designed to help specific groups of borrowers, and thus to hopefully limit [...]
Posted in Current Events, New Highlights, tagged background check, background investigations, credit report, credit report use, employee credit check, employer credit check, employment background check, employment credit check, employment eligibility, inappropriate credit report use on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The following is a link to an article on our corporate site. It pertains more to our customers, but does highlight the sometimes inappropriate use of employment credit reports by employers in determinations of employment eligibility. Please read:
http://ciilink.com/CIIInfoBlog/tabid/130/EntryID/9/Default.aspx
Posted in Current Events, tagged background check, background screen, education, educator sexual misconduct, oregon state legislature, problem teachers, sexual misconduct, sexual predator, suppressing information on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It seems hard to believe that a law needs to be passed in order to prohibit Oregon school administrators from concealing information about a teacher’s sexual misconduct and offering confidential settlements (including cash, health insurance, and even letters of reference) in an effort to encourage problem teachers to resign. Apparently this is a real issue. [...]
