Employee Screening
I'm now writing articles for "Doctor of Dentistry's Greater Chicago Edition." This is a hard copy "business and lifestyle magazine for dentists." My articles focus on the human resources & labor & employment law issues encountered by dental practices. You can read the 1st article, from the December/January issue, which discusses background checking and screening [...]
I've got two public presentations to tell you about. One involves me and the other involves my colleague Tony Ramos founder and president of The Integra Security Alliance, which I'm a part of. On Thursday, November 15, 2007, as part of the "Breaking Down Trade Barriers" day long conference, sponsored by the World Trade Center [...]
Criminal Background Check left the following comment on my February 11, 2007, post "Employee Screening and Risk Assessment": The latest thing is what people have done/posted on online. Employers are now starting to scour perspective employees Social Networking sites such as Facebook, and MySpace to see what they are up to in their own time. [...]
Tony Ramos, President, Integra Security Alliance, and I wrote the following article. Employee Screening and Risk Assessment Recent headlines of workplace violence, violence by home service personnel, as well as convicted rapists working as private security officers or child care providers, has raised serious questions regarding employee screening programs. What is negligent hiring? Should all [...]
As a fan of professional basketball, football and baseball, especially Chicago's teams, I often find valuable business lessons in analogizing labor and employment law related issues to those in sports (chess too for that matter). These analogies include the triangle offense/defense (basketball), the 46 defense (football) or what to say or not to say to [...]
