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CANDA Solutions and Employment Screening Resources (ESR) announce Strategic Partnership making full lifecycle Background Screening fast, convenient, and compliant Share Article Organizations can now perform highly specialized FCRA compliant background screening via CANDA’s Fresh Haystack Enterprise Risk Management platform and ESR’s award-winning technology featuring their ESR Assured Compliance® program ensuring speed and accuracy throughout the process. CO...

In January 2021, the Illinois legislature passed Senate Bill 1480 (SB 1480) to amend the Illinois Human Rights Act (IHRA) that would impact employers under the state’s “Ban the Box” law that prevents employers from asking job applicants about criminal histories on applications. The bill was sent to Governor J.B. Pritzker to sign into law. SB 1480 would make using conviction records in employment-related decisions a civil rights violation unless there is a “substantial relationship” ...

In January of 2021, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – a government agency that advances opportunity in the workplace by enforcing federal laws prohibiting emp­loyment discrimination – announced that President Joe Biden had appointed Commissioner Charlotte A. Burrows Chair of the EEOC and Commissioner Jocelyn Samuels Vice Chair of the EEOC as part of the Commission of the EEOC. Burrows had served as an EEOC Commissioner since 2015, having been initially nominated by...

The New York City Council has amended the Fair Chance Act (FCA) that prohibits most employers in the “Big Apple” from inquiring into the criminal records of job applicants until after a conditional job offer to expand employment protections. The amendments became law on January 10, 2021, and take effect on July 29, 2021. The New York City Council revised the FCA – which was enacted in 2015 to prohibit discrimination based on arrest records or criminal convictions – to identify the speci...

In December 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported there were 5,333 fatal work injuries recorded in the United States in 2019 using data from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), a 2 percent increase from the 5,250 in 2018 and the largest annual number since 2007, according to a BLS news release. The CFOI found the fatal work injury rate was 3.5 fatalities per 100,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) workers, the same rate reported in 2018. Work-related deaths have stea...