Some employers require workers and job candidates to hand over social media and email usernames and passwords, and many states, most recently New Hampshire, are taking action against this workplace policy. Some employers requiring personal information Yahoo...

A recent incident in which an employee refused a drug test after a supervisor smelled marijuana on the worker’s truck has led to interesting insight on current drug testing laws. The worker at the Halifax Streets Department in Nova Scotia, Canada was asked to...

There has been a nationwide trend toward expanding the scope of background checks for safety-sensitive positions. Such was the case when Rhode Island’s governor recently signed into law a measure that would require all volunteers at schools to first earn...

States have fought with force against those who fraudulently obtain unemployment insurance. The latest such example of this came in the form of more than $15 million a Tennessee agency announced the state had recouped from individuals who illegally obtained jobless...

A school district in Pennsylvania recently approved new measures that would extend its existing random drug and alcohol testing policy to cover all employees under the district’s jurisdiction, including teachers. Teacher OD’d from drugs Recently, the...

A few employees in East St. Louis will be without a job soon after local officials ordered random drug screenings be conducted on city employees. While the vast majority passed their tests, recent events spurred the city to take action and squash any illicit drug...

The city of Moreau, New York, has been taking background checks into consideration as the Town Board focuses its efforts on the past actions of employees working with children, seniors and disabled members of the community, according to Post Star. Due to a recent...

Companies need to understand how unemployment insurance works when they terminate an employee so they don’t find themselves in the middle of a major lawsuit. The terms of unemployment insurance are not always clear and complicated cases can arise. However, if...

Employers that utilize background checks are often required to limit their consideration of an applicant’s criminal past to incidents occurring within the past seven years. Indiana employers may soon have no choice, as a state law will allow for prospective...

A town in upstate New York is set to implement a background check policy for all employees and job applicants to city positions after a man who lied about his status as a sexual offender was allowed to gain employment. Sexual offender worked near school According...

Another Western state has limited business’ use of credit checks in making employment decisions. Nevada recently enacted a law restricting use of such checks not long after Colorado implemented a measure of its own that tightens the applicable scope of the...