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ADVERSE
ACTION NOTICES
Adverse Action Notices
Per FCRA requirements, before you proceed with an “Adverse Action” against an applicant or employee based in whole or in part of an ESS report, you are obligated to provide the applicant: (1) a copy of the report and (2) a Summary of Consumer Rights document. After the applicant has had an opportunity to dispute or explain information contained in the report, then you should send an FCRA compliant Adverse Action letter.
Compliance with Adverse Action Notices as required by federal law takes time and timing. Let ESS take care of that process for you. __________________________________
Copies of Reports to California (OK, MN) Residents
Per California Civil Code 1786.16, a job applicant or employee in California must be provided with a copy of the ESS report when s/he has requested it on the disclosure and authorization form. The same is true in Oklahoma and Minnesota.
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ESS credentials physicians and other
healthcare providers? ESS provides DOT compliant background checks for employers regulated by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Federal Aviation Administration, and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration? ESS provides a FREE search of the OFAC's (Office of Foreign Asset Control) Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (Terrorists, Drug Traffickers) every time a standard criminal search is conducted? ESS offers searches of a wide variety of industry required government database checks? ESS is a founding member of the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS), and our CEO is currently the chairman-elect of this association of over 600 professional screening companies worldwide? ESS is one a few professional screening services that is Safe Harbor certified by the U.S. Department of Commerce (which meets European privacy protection standards)? ESS provides FREE monthly educational webinars on employment screening topics? The presentations are also available on our client services website. Go to www.employscreen.com (User name is "ESS" in all caps and the password is "employment" in lower case) You can learn more about our next free webinar "Employment Assessment Tools," scheduled for September 20th by going to https://www.gotomeeting.com/register/392685287. |
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ESS now offers Canadian Criminal Record Checks on a nationwide basis via the Canadian Police Information Center (CPIC) maintained by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The search covers all convictions for which the offense requires fingerprinting as set out in the Identification of Criminals Act. The release of information from the CPIC complies with all policies and directives of Federal and Provincial privacy protection legislation.
Click Here to obtain the special disclosure and authorization form
for the applicant/employee to complete. Note that the form requires you to
check two pieces of identification from your applicant. Then send the
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A growing trend for court administrators across the country is to limit access to their records. Due to several lawsuits that have been filed and the worry of misuse, it is becoming harder and harder to obtain records from the courts. For example, Florida has considered eliminating (redacting is the official term) the identifiers from all court records. This would make it virtually impossible to know if the individual with a criminal record matching your applicant's name is indeed the same person. In a new development, the New York Office of Court Administration has placed reporting limits on criminal histories records "where the disposition involves a maximum sentence of 15 days in jail or less." The change is a result of a lawsuit that was settled in mid-July. To read more on this, click on the following link. |
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