The Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and Background Checks

Why Should You Attend:

The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) regulates how employers conduct pre-employment screening and investigations of current employees. Any employer, Human Resources or Security professional involved in pre-employment screening or employee investigations must comply with this complex law. However, the FCRA is full of potential landmines that can expose unwary employers to liability. In addition, at least 27 states have their own version of the FCRA.

Employers have long recognized that conducting due diligence on new hires is a mission critical task. Firms cannot afford to be sidetracked by employee problems such as workplace violence, theft, false resumes, embezzlement, harassment or trumped-up injury claims. Employers can be sued for negligent hiring if they hire someone they should have known, through the exercise of due diligence, was dangerous, unfit, dishonest or unqualified.

This webinar will discuss the basic of Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) for employers and how and why background checks and due diligence have become mission critical for employers.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Basic operation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) for employers.
• Pending legislation on conducting internal investigations.
• Impact of Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff opinion letters.
• New cases and future trends.
• FCRA class action lawsuits rising in 2015.
• States having their own version of the FCRA.
• How to comply with the complex law known as FCRA.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn why background checks and due diligence have become mission critical for employers.
• Understand the current trends and best practices.
• Learn legal developments affecting due diligence and hiring.
• Understand why there has been a dramatic increase in class action lawsuits over background checks.
• Understand the very real threat of lawsuits including class action suits against employers that fail to screen or fail to follow the law.
• Learn steps employers can take immediately to help ensure legal compliance

Who Will Benefit:

• Human Resources Professionals
• Hiring and Employment managers
• Employers and Business owners
• Talent Management Officers
• Risk, Audit, and Compliance Personnel
• Anyone involved with the hiring and/or retention process at a company

Instructor Profile:

Lester S. Rosen is an attorney at law and CEO of Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a national background screening company located in California.

He is also a consultant, writer and frequent presenter nationwide on pre-employment screening and safe hiring issues. He has qualified and testified in the California, Florida and Arkansas Superior Courts as an expert witness on issues surrounding safe hiring and due diligence.

He has authored two books- ‘The Safe Hiring Manual’ and ‘The Safe Hiring Audit’.

Mr. Rosen was the chairperson of the steering committee that founded the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS) a professional trade organization for the screening industry and served as the first co-chairman in 2004.

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