Employers have long recognized that conducting due diligence on new hires is a mission-critical task.

Firms cannot afford to be sidetracked by employee problems such as workplace violence, theft, false resumes, embezzlement, harassment, or trumped-up injury claims as employers can be sued for negligent hiring if they hire someone they should have known, through the exercise of due diligence, was dangerous, unfit, dishonest, or unqualified.

During this 90-minute session, we will cover current trends and legal developments affecting due diligence and hiring, cutting-edge issues such as the EEOC’s focus on criminal records and credit reports, and the use and pitfalls of employment tests.

This session will include legally-compliant best practices an organization can utilize to avoid a bad hire. Attendees will gain a greater understanding of the laws that guide best practices in all types of background investigations from criminal history to credit and medical exams.What You'll Learn:By attending this training session, you and/or your team will learn legally-compliant best practices your organization can utilize to avoid a bad hire - yet keep itself productive and out of court. Specifically, we'll cover:

• The current trends, best practices, and legal developments affecting due diligence and hiring
• Cutting-edge issues such as the new EEOC focus on criminal records and credit reports
• Use of employment tests and legal pitfalls to be aware of
• Legal cases that have set precedent in background checks
• Understanding federal and state laws that need to be followed to alleviate disparate impact
• Ban the Box, Drug & Alcohol Testing, Medical Exams and how all background checks must show relevance to the job