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• Should Companies Use Credit Checks To Screen Job Applicants?

  November 01, 2011 - by Adam Cohen, TIME It is a harsh catch-22, particularly in today's moribund economy: many companies routinely rule out job applicants who fail a credit check. That means that unemployed people who can't pay their bills may actually be too poor to get a job. Critics, from labor unions and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to advocates for the unemployed, say the use of credit checks makes it hard for people who are struggling to turn their lives around and that it should be treated as discrimination. They have been pushing for state laws and federal policies to bar pre-employment credit checks; this week they scored their biggest victory yet when California enacted a law restricting the use of credit...

• Hot Dog! An Eatery Hires Ex-Offenders

  October 01, 2011 - by Esther Cepeda You can't keep a good wiener down. Last month, Felony Franks, which unabashedly hires ex-cons, proved that by getti...

• Why Men Don't Do Anything About Being Abused

  October 01, 2011 - by Philip Cook Taking on a macho "I can handle it" attitude. Even if you have been hurt much worse on an athletic playing field, t...

• Texas Students Sent From Classroom To Courtroom

  October 01, 2011 - By Donna St. George In a small courtroom north of Houston, a fourth-grader walked up to the bench with his mother. Too short to see the judg...

• Maryland's Online Court Records: Now You See Them, Now You Don't

  October 01, 2011 - By Edward Ericson Jr. Users of the state's online court records database (courts.state.md.us/courtrecords.html) saw a new message beginn...

• Youngstown, OH Municipal Court Now Online

  October 01, 2011 - by Steven Brownstein Youngstown Municipal Court case records are now available online at www.youngstownmunicipalcourt.org. A recent samplin...

• Les Rosens' Corner

  October 01, 2011 - Class Action Case Shows Importance of Background Screening Firms Following Fair Credit Reporting Act when Reporting Sexual Offender Data A new...

• Gay Convictions To Be Wiped From The Records

  October 01, 2011 - Those convicted of homosexual crimes could soon apply to have their convictions wiped from the records under a government measure to tackle discrim...

• As Criminal Laws Proliferate, More Are Ensnared.

  September 01, 2011 - By Gary Fields and John R. Emshwiller Eddie Leroy Anderson of Craigmont, Idaho, is a retired logger, a former science teacher and now a federal...

• No Surprise Here - Tweeting Can Get You Fired

  September 01, 2011 - by Rhodri Marsden The internet has brought about a head-on collision between our personal and professional lives. A neatly presented online CV...

• Tips About Cook County, IL Civil Cases Online

  September 01, 2011 - by Steven Brownstein The Clerk of the Circuit Court offers on-line access to the full electronic docket for cases filed in the Civil, Law, C...

• Will County, IL Cases Go Online

  September 01, 2011 - by Steven Brownstein The Clerk of the Circuit Court offers on-line access to limited electronic docket for cases filed in the Circuit Court....

• About Cuyahoga County Cases Online

  September 01, 2011 - by Steven Brownstein The Cuyahoga Common Pleas Court offers on-line access to electronic docket for cases filed in the Circuit Court. The i...

• Make Money- Background Checks For The The Medical Industry

  September 01, 2011 - by Steven Brownstein You can help physicians take simple steps to protect themselves from becoming subjects of lawsuits or losing substantial r...

• The New Cost Of Candian Criminal Pardons

  September 01, 2011 - By Paula Mallea The Conservative government, with the collaboration of opposition parties, hastily passed a piece of legislation (Bill C-23A) l...

• Texas Man Can't Clear His Name

  September 01, 2011 - by steven Brownstein A Frisco, TX man has been unable to clear his name for over four years. An appeals court has decided he has no right t...

• Rape Victim Gets Expelled From School

  September 01, 2011 - by Steven Brownstein A Missouri school district has been accussed in a federal lawsuit that they failed to protect a middle-school girl from be...

• Hire that Felon, You Racist!

  September 01, 2011 - A Blog by Amy Ridenour ...One the one hand, the EEOC is telling employers, "Don't worry, hire criminals, they are contributing members...