Feb

22

To credit check or not to credit check?

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The popular KnowHR blog recently ran a post that generated lots of comment from HR types. The title was A Master’s Class in Hiring a Person With Credit Wrecked By Bad Health and Being Laid Off.
The blogger shared the story of a person who’d been out of work for some time because of medical problems. […]

Mar

17

If one background check is good…

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The Houston Chronicle recently ran an editorial about background checks for taxi drivers in that city. Here’s the gist.
By April, taxi drivers who wish to pick up or drop off passengers at Bush Intercontinental Airport will have to pass a background check by the Transportation Security Administration. The cabbies, 80 percent of whom came here […]

Feb

8

Background checks can help prevent fraud in your small business

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Recently SMB Finance magazine published a couple of articles about fraud and small businesses. SMB Finance is a bi-monthly magazine that provides news and resources specifically for financial executives in small and midsized businesses. The magazine is not available online.
One article pointed out that small businesses lose five percent of their annual revenue to […]

Jan

18

One more way your rental property can get trashed

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After telling the story of Jason Winterholler, the Austin American-Statesman offers up the following: “Police said homeowners should do credit and criminal background checks on prospective tenants. They also warned owners to be skeptical of overly favorable deals and resist the urge to skip background checks just because the prospective renters seem nice.”
That advice will […]

Dec

31

Are pre-employment credit checks discriminatory?

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Sometimes you hear people complain about the use of pre-employment credit checks as part of the hiring process. They say, “My bad credit shouldn’t be an issue in whether I can do the job. I’m being discriminated against.” Are they right?
Kansas City Star business columnist Diane Stafford takes up that issue in her recent column […]