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McDonalds to introduce criminal background checks as Derryn Hinch outs paedophile employee named
September 22, 2016 - McDonalds is set to introduce criminal background checks for adult employees after Derryn Hinch used parliamentary privilege to out a convicted paedophile who was working at a Penrith restaurant. The Human Headline revealed the man gained a job at the Penrith Panthers Leagues Club McDonalds and was offering lifts home to teenage boys. It was claimed in the speech to the senate that the mother of a boy who had been interfered with by the man, when he ran a canteen at a baseball club, alerted the McDonalds of his prior history. “How could a convicted paedophile get to work with teenagers at one of our most famous fast food outlets at a famous football club? How could a young victim turn up...
FBI Explains Why Firearm Background Checks Were Unusually Low In August
September 16, 2016 - It turns out gun makers like Smith & Wesson Holding Corp and Sturm, Ruger & Company may not have had as bad of an August as the FBI backgro...
Uber drivers dealt setback in background-check lawsuit
September 12, 2016 - Uber won a courtroom victory on Wednesday when an appeals court ruled that drivers are subject to individual arbitration in a lawsuit over backgrou...
Trump Softens Stance on Illegals Without Criminal Records
September 06, 2016 - Donald Trump clarified his stance on immigration during a Wednesday interview, saying he'll deport illegals who have a criminal record in the U...
Toronto announces new Uber licence, background checks for drivers
September 02, 2016 - A month after contentious rules to legalize UberX were supposed to come into effect, the City of Toronto said on Tuesday that it had issued a new s...
Clinton, Trump supporters share views on background checks
August 30, 2016 - Most supporters from both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton camps favor expanding background checks to include private gun sales and at gun shows, b...
How to Pass a C.I.A. Background Check
August 22, 2016 - “Withholding information from us will not work in your favor,” says Ronald S. Patrick, deputy director of talent development at the Cen...
Growing demand for firms providing pre-employment screening
August 19, 2016 - The UAE may gradually move to introduce mandatory background checks on job applicants in the financial services sector, many experts believe, as th...
How Many Guns Slip Through Background Check Loopholes?
August 15, 2016 - To answer that question, we need to know how many are sold with a background check, and that statistic doesn't really exist. Bac...
FBI: July Was 15th Straight Month Of Record Background Checks
August 08, 2016 - The latest figures from the FBI show that July 2016 was the 15th consecutive month of record background checks for gun sales. The previous July...
NYU Begins Ignoring Common App’s Questions on Criminal Records
August 04, 2016 - New York University has begun ignoring the checkbox questions about criminal and disciplinary history on the Common Application, the institution an...
Drug "Kingpin' Bust: Defendants' records revealed
August 02, 2016 - Accused heroin trafficker Terrence "Money" Wise had at least two run-ins with Broome County police in drug cases going back 12 years and...
Judge Hits Uber’s Background Check on Passenger Bringing Price-Fixing Suit
July 28, 2016 - A federal judge on Monday banned Uber Technologies Inc. and its Chief Executive Travis Kalanick from using information from a background check on a...
FBI: Gun Background Checks Surged During First Six Months of 2016
July 26, 2016 - The number of applications for federal background checks, which are legally required for potential firearm buyers, surged during the first half of...
Dallas shooter acted alone, say police
July 14, 2016 - The shooter who killed five police officials and injured seven in Dallas, Texas earlier in the week acted alone, the police said, adding that he wa...
FBI background checks surge in June
July 12, 2016 - Following the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, federal background checks for gun purchases surged in June. The Federal Burea...
FBI: Nearly 52,000 Background Checks A Day Under Obama
July 08, 2016 - FBI figures for National Instant Criminal Background Check System checks performed during Obama’s presidency average out to nearly 52,000 che...
L.A. Mayor Wants Colleges to Stop Asking About Criminal Records
July 06, 2016 - Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is asking companies that design and print college admission papers to stop inquiring about students’ criminal...
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