Employment Background Checks – What Employers NEED to Know
Duration: 90 minutes
Speaker: Max Muller
Webinar Description
The conflict between the goal of safety and security in the modern workplace, as well as laws requiring background checks for those seeking certain types of jobs - and - federal and state laws constraining how much information employers can seek about job applicants, is enough to give any business executive or HR professional a headache. This fast paced, information rich 90 minute webinar will provide you with the information you need to know in order to navigate between all of these conflicting legal requirements so that you can effectively and legally screen prospective employees.
Agenda
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Why employment background checks are necessary
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Core categories of information employers seek
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Why obtaining an applicant’s written consent is critical to undertaking a background check
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The importance of getting an applicant’s written consent on a form separate from a job application
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The necessity of obtaining a consent specific to medical, educational or military records
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Impact of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act’s (FCRA) national standards for employment screening on who actually performs a background check
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Two ways an employer can legally avoid the provisions of FCRA
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How the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) view on criminal background checks directly impacts employment application forms and interview questions
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State “ban-the-box” laws and what they really mean
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Why arrest and conviction records aren’t the same thing
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The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACTA) "employee misconduct investigations" exceptions to FRCA
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Best practices for legally conducting a background check on prospective employees
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Continuing HRCI Credit Information
This program has been pre-approved for 1.5 hours of General recertification credit hours through the HR Certification Institute. Use of the seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met the HR Certification Institute's criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.
Continuing Legal Education Credit Information
This webinar has been approved in the following states for continuing legal education credit by The Marino Legal Academy:
California: 1.5 credit hours
The Marino Institute for Continuing Legal Education is a State Bar of California approved MCLE sponsor and this course qualifies for 1.5 credit hours of participatory CLE credit.
New Jersey: 1.5 credit hours
This webinar has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 1.5 CLE credit hours.
New York: 1.5 areas of professional practice credit hours
This course has been approved in accordance with the requirements of the New York Continuing Legal Education Board for veteran attorneys for 1.5 credit hours, of which 1.50 credit hours may be applied toward the Areas of Professional Practice.
Pennsylvania: 1.5 credit hours
This Distance Learning program has been approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for 1.5 hours of substantive law, practice and procedure CLE credit.
To receive CLE credit for this webinar in those states, please request such credit by writing toinfo@parkavenuepresentations.com. Your request will be forwarded to The Marino Legal Academy for processing.
CLE credit for this webinar may also be awarded in a number of other jurisdictions. For more information, please contact a Marino Legal Academy legal education consultant at (212) 249-3779,x104.
Logistics
- 90 minutes (Travel Free) delivered over the Internet.
Unlimited listeners per connection - bring the entire department.
Q&A session with the expert.
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