It’s a Litigation Jungle Out There! Avoiding Legal Claims with Compliant Background Screening
To avoid bad hiring decisions, employers are utilizing pre-employment background screening as a risk management tool. However, background checks are increasingly subject to litigation, legislation and regulation. There has been an explosion of class-action lawsuits, as well as actions by federal agencies, based on allegations that employers failed to follow the law. This session will examine 10 key areas of legal compliance designed to help you hire the best while avoiding legal fallout. This session will:
· Show you how the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act and similar state laws impact hiring.
· Help you understand the impact of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidance
and “ban-the-box” rules on the use of criminal records.
· Review the elements and defenses to negligent hiring lawsuits.
· Help you understand the current explosion in class-action lawsuits related to background checks.
· Provide information so you can audit your current practices for legal compliance with federal, state and local laws.
Lester S. Rosen
Lester S. Rosen is an attorney at law and CEO of Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a national background screening company. He is a consultant, writer, expert witness and frequent presenter nationwide on pre-employment screening. He is the author of “The Safe Hiring Manual,” (3d Edition 2017/826 pages), the first comprehensive book on background screening. He served as the chairperson of the steering committee that founded the Professional Background Screeners Association (PBSA), served as its first co-chair and received the PBSA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.