Whether you’re a landlord vetting a potential tenant or a business owner hiring new staff, today’s background check services ...

Conducting a background check on yourself isn’t always necessary if you’re concerned about identity theft, but there are situations when it can be a good idea. Identity theft has been rampant since ...

WASHINGTON — A breakdown in background checks has enabled applicants with criminal drug histories to gain jobs as health care workers with the Veterans Health Administration, federal auditors told ...

Employers may not be able to trust background checks completely, particularly because they may contain false information, according to a new study published in the research journal Criminology.

Criminal record checks are at four-year highs in North America, Asia, EMEA and Latin America. Drug screening is common in North America; the US has seen many states loosen rules on marijuana.

The purpose of this Background Check Policy ("Policy") is to establish the background check requirements and processes for University of Colorado Boulder ("CU-Boulder") prospective employees, current ...

Johnny C. Taylor Jr. tackles your human resources questions as part of a series for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, the world's largest HR ...

Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary cautioned students involved in the campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war that they could find themselves “screwed” when applying for jobs from future employers ...

The dispute in Kinder v. TransUnion Rental Screening Solutions, Inc. is one of several cases centered on allegedly errant background checks over the past year. Two such cases involved HR services firm ...

With HB 1747 moving through the Washington state legislature, employers may want to evaluate their hiring policies and assess whether adjustments would be necessary should the bill become law.