Littler Mendelson’s Privacy & Data Protection Practice Group just published an excellent article highlighting the challenges of background check compliance for employers:
New California Law Illustrates Challenges of Background Check Compliance for Employers
“Background checks seem to be a hot topic in state legislatures these days. In the past six months, for example, several states — including Illinois, Massachusetts, Oregon, and most recently California — have enacted laws bearing upon the process of checking the backgrounds of job applicants and employees. Under the new California law (pdf), effective January 1, 2012, background check authorizations must include the “Internet Web site address . . . where the consumer may find information about the investigative reporting agency’s privacy practices.” This seemingly trivial change is endemic to the challenges that employers confront in the area of background check compliance.”
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