Employers commonly conduct background checks on prospective employees in various areas that they may think relevant when deciding whether to hire an individual for a job. Yet, federal, state, and ...

Pre-employment drug testing can feel overwhelming for many employers. What are the rules? Do certain drugs matter more? What doesn’t matter at all? What can you let slide? The hard part is that ...

Staffing firms are in business to help clients fill essential job roles. However, this has become increasingly difficult due to an unprecedented global talent shortage. According to a Gartner survey, ...

The key to limiting employee problems is to avoid hiring problem employees by conducting pre-employment screening. Advances in technology have led to a new pre-employment screening option for ...

I am exploring options of pre-employment screening services. I'm primarily interested in criminal background checks; I don't care about credit reports (I feel like it's not really my business anyway).

CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- How can Wyoming employers ensure that new hires are safe, capable, and compliant before day one? According to a HelloNation article, Kat Parmer of Employee ...

-- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has guidelines on pre-employment testing at http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/factemployment_procedures.html. If you ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alonzo Martinez reports on employment laws and trends in HR tech. If Massachusetts passes H. 2179, pre-employment marijuana ...

I've been a police psychologist for 30 years; counseling, teaching, giving workshops, and writing books, both fiction and non-fiction. My fictional alter-ego, Dr. Dot Meyerhoff, has done a lot more ...

CLEVELAND — Marijuana is now officially legal in Ohio, which comes one month after voters passed Issue 2 during the November general election. Now, Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb has announced the city ...