Ensuring Compliance • 03/12/2025 Understanding the mcs 150 biennial update process for background check compliance
Ohio's E-Verify Mandate Is Live: Lessons for Employers Watching the Next Wave of State Requirements Ensuring Compliance • 11/07/2026 Ohio's E-Verify Mandate Is Live: Lessons for Employers Watching the Next Wave of State Requirements Ohio’s new E-Verify mandate for nonresidential construction reshapes hiring, compliance, and HRIS integration. Learn who is covered, key risks, and multi-state lessons.
Beyond the Criminal Record: Why Employment Verification Has Become the New Compliance Frontier Ensuring Compliance • 08/07/2026 Beyond the Criminal Record: Why Employment Verification Has Become the New Compliance Frontier Learn how AI-generated résumés, regulatory pressure, and extended workforce models are transforming employment verification from a basic background check into a strategic compliance control, and how tiered, continuous verification reduces enterprise risk.
Configuring Post-Offer-Only Screening Workflows: ATS Settings for Fair Chance Compliance Ensuring Compliance • 06/07/2026 Configuring Post-Offer-Only Screening Workflows: ATS Settings for Fair Chance Compliance Learn how to configure your ATS for fair chance and ban-the-box compliance, with post-offer-only background screening workflows, audit-ready records, multi-state logic, and practical controls in platforms like Workday, Greenhouse, and iCIMS.
Screening International Hires in 2026: Data Transfer, Local Laws, and the Cross-Border Compliance Maze Ensuring Compliance • 30/06/2026 Screening International Hires in 2026: Data Transfer, Local Laws, and the Cross-Border Compliance Maze Learn how to build an audit-ready, compliant operating model for international background checks, covering data privacy, AI governance, criminal record limits, vendor selection, and cross-border data transfers.
Scaling Seasonal Screening Without Compliance Shortcuts: Playbooks From Logistics and Retail Ensuring Compliance • 29/06/2026 Scaling Seasonal Screening Without Compliance Shortcuts: Playbooks From Logistics and Retail Learn how logistics and retail leaders manage high volume seasonal background screening with tiered checks, surge‑ready vendors, and audit‑proof adverse action processes while staying compliant with FCRA, ICRAA, and New York Article 23‑A.
Clean Slate Laws in 14 States: Employer Obligations When Criminal Records Get Sealed Legal Considerations • 27/06/2026 Clean Slate Laws in 14 States: Employer Obligations When Criminal Records Get Sealed Learn how automatic clean slate laws, sealed criminal records, and state rules like New York State’s clean slate framework reshape employer background checks, adverse action notices, and multi-state compliance obligations.
Your Mid-Year Screening Compliance Audit: State Laws Taking Effect July 1 and What to Update Legal Considerations • 19/06/2026 Your Mid-Year Screening Compliance Audit: State Laws Taking Effect July 1 and What to Update Learn how July 2026 background check law changes in Washington, Virginia, and Philadelphia affect hiring, lookback periods, individualized assessments, and your semi-annual screening compliance audit.
Screening Your Extended Workforce: Legal Boundaries and Practical Frameworks for Contractors, Temps, and Gig Workers Legal Considerations • 20/06/2026 Screening Your Extended Workforce: Legal Boundaries and Practical Frameworks for Contractors, Temps, and Gig Workers Learn why contingent worker background check requirements now mirror full-time hiring risk, how joint employer liability works with staffing agencies and gig platforms, and how to implement tiered screening, contract clauses, and vendor audits for your extended workforce.
Drug Testing Panels in 2026: Fentanyl Additions, Cannabis Confusion, and Multi-State Compliance Creating a Background Check Policy • 13/06/2026 Drug Testing Panels in 2026: Fentanyl Additions, Cannabis Confusion, and Multi-State Compliance Learn how modern employer drug testing panels for 2026 are shifting toward fentanyl detection, navigating cannabis laws, and aligning with DOT and SAMHSA guidance while protecting workplace safety and candidate experience.
Colorado's AI Hiring Law Collapsed in Court: What the SB 26-189 Replacement Means for Screening Legal Considerations • 12/06/2026 Colorado's AI Hiring Law Collapsed in Court: What the SB 26-189 Replacement Means for Screening Colorado’s original AI hiring law collapsed in court. See how SB 26-189 reshapes Colorado AI Act screening compliance for automated background checks and HR tech.
Background Check Compliance in 2026: Building a Multi-State Audit Framework That Scales Ensuring Compliance • 05/06/2026 Background Check Compliance in 2026: Building a Multi-State Audit Framework That Scales Learn how multi-state employers can build an audit-ready background check compliance program with a jurisdiction matrix, quarterly audits, and defensible workflows that align with FCRA, ban-the-box, and fair chance hiring laws.
USCIS Enhanced Vetting Freezes Millions of Cases: Your Employer Sponsorship Playbook Ensuring Compliance • 01/06/2026 USCIS Enhanced Vetting Freezes Millions of Cases: Your Employer Sponsorship Playbook Learn how USCIS enhanced vetting and extended security checks affect employer sponsored hires, EAD renewals, onboarding timelines, and HR compliance workflows.
Cross-Border Background Checks Under GDPR: Designing a Defensible Workflow for Global Hires Legal Considerations • 27/05/2026 Cross-Border Background Checks Under GDPR: Designing a Defensible Workflow for Global Hires Learn how to design international background check workflows that comply with GDPR, manage cross-border data transfers, and balance hiring risk, privacy, and operational speed.
Heading to SHRM Annual: A Compliance Leader's Reading List Before the Conference Ensuring Compliance • 25/05/2026 Heading to SHRM Annual: A Compliance Leader's Reading List Before the Conference Learn how to get more value from SHRM Annual background screening sessions, from AI and continuous monitoring debates to vendor questions, accuracy standards, and post-conference action steps.
EEOC Background Check Guidelines in Practice: Building Individualized Assessments That Hold Up Legal Considerations • 20/05/2026 EEOC Background Check Guidelines in Practice: Building Individualized Assessments That Hold Up Learn how EEOC background check guidelines and Title VII shape defensible hiring, individualized assessments, AI workflows, and audit-ready documentation for employers using criminal history in employment decisions.
FCRA Compliance for Hiring Teams: The Workflow Audit That Cuts Litigation Risk Legal Considerations • 13/05/2026 FCRA Compliance for Hiring Teams: The Workflow Audit That Cuts Litigation Risk Learn how to build FCRA-compliant hiring workflows, from standalone disclosures and adverse action timing to quarterly audits, state ban-the-box rules, and AI-driven background screening tools.
Washington State's July 1 Ban-the-Box Overhaul: A 60-Day Readiness Plan for Mid-Market Employers Legal Considerations • 07/05/2026 Washington State's July 1 Ban-the-Box Overhaul: A 60-Day Readiness Plan for Mid-Market Employers Learn how Washington State ban the box 2026 will change fair chance hiring, who is covered, and how HR teams can build audit-ready background check and individualized assessment workflows. by Guillaume-Henri Devereux
New York's April 18 Background Check Update: Your 7-Day Compliance Action Plan Legal Considerations • 07/05/2026 New York's April 18 Background Check Update: Your 7-Day Compliance Action Plan Learn how the New York background check law 2026 changes timing, criminal and credit history assessments, and HR compliance steps under Article 23-A, Executive Law §296(15), FCRA and NYC Fair Chance rules. by Adelaide von Amsberg
Adverse Action Notices in 2026: Templates and Audit Trails That Survive FCRA Litigation Legal Considerations • 06/05/2026 Adverse Action Notices in 2026: Templates and Audit Trails That Survive FCRA Litigation Learn how to meet FCRA and Dodd‑Frank adverse action notice requirements in employment background checks, avoid common drafting errors, and build an audit‑ready trail that supports defensible hiring decisions. by Jayden Kim
Ensuring Compliance • 10/03/2026 Managed state compliance in background checks: what it means for employers and candidates Understand managed state compliance in background checks, how state laws shape screening, and what it means for employers, candidates, and hiring decisions. by Tarik Al-Mansouri
