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Most background check contracts renew on autopilot. Here's how to find out if yours should. The contract hits an inbox, someone signs it, and the same service continues for another 12 months.

U.S. authorities have indicted fourteen North Korean nationals for spending months or years embedded in American companies under fabricated identities, conducting interviews using AI tools and deepfakes, and routing roughly $88 million in wages over six years back to the regime.

If you hire anyone who works in Philadelphia, including remote workers, contractors, and gig workers, your screening process may already be out of compliance. Here's what changed, and what you need to fix. Philadelphia's amended Fair Chance Hiring Law (Bill No.

If your crews work ExxonMobil sites, the background check process follows a specific grading system that determines site access. This guide explains how it works and what you need to stay compliant.

One flawed hiring workflow in Washington can now cost you a penalty for every applicant it touches. Ask 15 people about their criminal history before a conditional offer, and that is potentially 15 separate violations from one bad process.

AI adoption in HR nearly doubled over the past year, from 26% to 43% of organizations, according to SHRM, and recruiting is the most common place teams put it to work. If your company is among them, one question needs a fast answer: which of these laws apply to you?

Resume Fraud Was Already a Crisis, Iowa Just Made It a Crime. Before Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed House File 2337 into law, before the Ian Roberts case made national headlines, and before state legislatures started criminalizing credential fraud, KRESS saw it coming.

A background check comes back with a conviction. Now what? If the first instinct is to skip that candidate and move on, that reaction is common. It is also where employers walk into trouble.

If you use AI to screen, shortlist, or rank candidates, the question is no longer whether your tools work efficiently. It is whether they hold up under scrutiny. Vendors call them neutral. Regulators are starting to ask for proof.

A criminal background check is an investigation into a candidate's criminal history. It can show felony and misdemeanor convictions, infractions, and pending criminal cases. Most employers agree that criminal background checks are part of building a safe, compliant workplace.

Your background check provider just called a previous employer to verify a candidate. The phone rang. An automated voice asked for dates of employment and job title. The employer hung up. And now it's your problem. This happens constantly.

Your last background check probably came back clean. But if your provider isn't searching federal courts, clean doesn't mean complete, it means 94 districts went unchecked. There are 94 federal court districts in the United States.