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EEOC Issues New Guidance On Using Criminal Background Checks
If you have two applicants with similar criminal histories – for example a white and a black applicant with misdemeanor assault convictions within the past five years – they must be treated the same. LEGAL ALERT Fisher & Phillips LLP attorneys at law
Updated: 04/27/2012 11:37A
Miller & Martin | The EEOC's Busy Week – A New Guidance Issued on Using Arrest
Records of a criminal conviction on the other hand may be used not only as “evidence of conduct” but also as “evidence of unlawful conduct” or that “the law has been violated” by the individual in question. The Guidance issued by the EEOC this week did
Updated: 04/27/2012 11:24A
Some sex offenders get off easy
According to SB 735, signed into law by then-Gov. Bill Richardson in 2007, sex offenders convicted of child solicitation by electronic device was added to the list of twelve crimes that require registration. That same year, former Gov.
Updated: 04/27/2012 11:12A
Some sex offenders get off easy
According to SB 735, signed into law by then-Gov. Bill Richardson in 2007, sex offenders convicted of child solicitation by electronic device was added to the list of twelve crimes that require registration. That same year, former Gov.
Updated: 04/27/2012 11:12A
Former District of Columbia Department of Corrections Officer Pleads Guilty to
“The Justice Department will continue to vigorously prosecute officers who cross the line to engage in acts of criminal conduct.” “No one is above the law, and no one is undeserving of the law's protection,” said United States Attorney Ronald C Machen,
Updated: 04/27/2012 11:08A
SHRM Issues Statement on Updated EEOC Enforcement Guidance for Criminal
However, SHRM remains concerned with the potential conflict between this federal guidance and state laws that require criminal background checks in some industries and for some positions. We will continue to work with the commission to address issues
Updated: 04/27/2012 11:06A
Justices skeptical about parts of Arizona immigration law
WASHINGTON - US Supreme Court justices appeared to be skeptical about the worker penalties included in Arizona's anti-immigrant, anti-Hispanic law, SB1070, even as their questions suggested other parts of the statute might be upheld.
Updated: 04/27/2012 11:02A
SOCA and the FBI takedown 36 AVC websites
Cybercrime is both global and organised, Mike Humphrey at the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), told the audience at the Security for a Digital Britain conference on 24 September in Nottingham. In a joint exercise between between multiple law
Updated: 04/27/2012 10:34A
Stand Your Ground laws: Do they offer a license to kill?
"Now, the law and their government is on the side of law-abiding people and victims, rather than on the side of criminals," said Hammer. Some law-enforcement officials warned that the statute would make it hard to secure murder convictions,
Updated: 04/27/2012 10:30A
State abortion laws place unprecedented limits, requirements on doctors
The enactment of the law was opposed by the Wisconsin Medical Society, which said that it “directly infringes on the special and private relationship between the patient and physician” by legislating medical protocol. In Mississippi, a new law requires
Updated: 04/27/2012 10:19A
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