{"id":3431,"date":"2020-06-26T03:13:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T03:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaudylaw.com\/?p=3431"},"modified":"2022-08-10T18:04:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T01:04:06","slug":"are-you-using-background-checks-for-every-new-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/business-legal-tips\/are-you-using-background-checks-for-every-new-hire\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you using background checks for every new hire?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What do you need to know about background checks when hiring?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>California employers that conduct background checks on job applicants (<strong>and we should all be conducting background checks!<\/strong>&nbsp;\ud83d\ude0a) must comply with a range of legal requirements\u2014including federal rules, the new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shrm.org\/resourcesandtools\/hr-topics\/talent-acquisition\/pages\/california-bans-the-box-prohibits-salary-history-queries.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California ban-the-box law<\/a>&nbsp;that&nbsp;<strong>took effect in January<\/strong>&nbsp;and even local ordinances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The California \u201cban-the-box\u201d law prohibits inquiries about criminal history until a conditional job offer has been made.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The federal&nbsp;<strong>Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)<\/strong>&nbsp;governs background checks when information is obtained from a third-party consumer reporting agency and requires employers to send certain notices to job candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we\u2019re working with companies to conduct an audit of their background check procedures&nbsp;to make sure they&#8217;re getting everything right, we also let them know they may also need to think about local ordinances such as the similar Los Angeles \u201cFair Chance Process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a good idea to make sure your company is in compliance with this crucial part of any hiring process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you need to know about background checks when hiring? California employers that conduct background checks on job applicants (and we should all be conducting background checks!&nbsp;\ud83d\ude0a) must comply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[490],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6063,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions\/6063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}