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Fair Chance Hiring and Criminal Background Checks

Sterling Check

Corporate America, and indeed companies around the globe, are increasingly evaluating their hiring practices and overall diversity and inclusion policies to ensure they are playing a positive role in addressing and eliminating systemic racism. What Exactly are Fair Chance Laws?

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5 Examples of Racial Bias in Hiring

Ongig

They include racial bias in job descriptions, candidate screening, interviewing, job offers, and background checks. Racial Bias in Candidate Screening. The 2004 field experiment on labor market discrimination answers the question, “Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal?” Accent Bias.

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Fair Chance Hiring Practices

Sterling Check

Today’s job market and social climate demands that HR professionals consider overall diversity and inclusion policies to ensure they are playing a positive role in addressing and eliminating systemic racism. The concerns around discrimination and links to criminal history are not new. In 2012, the U.S. EEOC Guidance.

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Why Your Company Should Care About The UN SDG

Ongig

We see diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in almost every modern workplace setting. DEI creates a good environment where teammates from diverse backgrounds work together well. Thus, the organization gains from having diverse perspectives. By hiring diverse leaders and improving how they hire people.

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Can an Employer Ask to See an Employee’s Social Media Account?

HR Daily Advisor

Typically, this involves both physical safety measures and background checks on employees. Employers often use the Internet (including social media) as part of their background checking process. Finding this type of info presents a risk because employer knowledge of such information can lead to claims of discrimination.

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Updates From the EEOC’s New Strategic Plan

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workplaces are subject to the EEOC for background checks made when hiring, among many other workplace activities where discrimination is possible. Learn more about the key changes within the EEOC Strategic Plan and how employers can adapt, including when it comes to background checks.

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Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: The Benefits & Why it Matters

Empuls

Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do. Marco Bizzarri One could argue that the reason our vast and diverse human race has evolved into this well-oiled machine of progress and precision is that each one of us brings something unique and valuable to the table.