Recently in the news, we have seen a few different cases where a social security trace was not conducted with the background check and later it was found that the employee falsified information.
Faddis, a former CIA official, commented on the potential hazard posed by Faisal Shahzad who had access to five nuclear power plants in the US as a maintenance worker before moving to Yemen to allegedly join Al Qaeda.
Since his arrest by Yemeni security forces in March, American law enforcement officials have taken pains to emphasize that Mr. Mobley’s low security clearance makes it unlikely that he passed crucial details about American nuclear-plant security to Al Qaeda.
George Huguely’s rage was well-known to police. But the University of Virginia never knew about its 22-year-old lacrosse star’s violent past because there’s no law that requires colleges to be told when a student is arrested off campus.
A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that was released states that an overwhelmingly large number of terrorists and people on the government watch list are being approved to carry firearms and guns.
TransUnion, the Chicago-based credit reporting agency controlled by the powerful Pritzker family, is fighting to preserve the use of credit checks in employment screening, even as several states, including Illinois, threaten to outlaw the practice in most circumstances as discriminatory.
What’s the harm in a little white lie on your résumé, especially if it will help you finally nab that full-time position?
When untrained supervisors are in charge of front-line employees with customer contact, the impact on customers’ experience can be devastating.
A South Side company has completed background checks on its employees who solicit donations on behalf of charities and fired 18 with criminal records because their employment violates state law.
Schools often find themselves doing background checks through the statewide systems that are available.
