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Click here to find out moreFinding qualified applicants for jobs is a constant challenge for employers for reasons going well past identifying individuals with the necessary skills, experience, training and education. Beyond finding strong candidates for particular positions, employers also have responsibilities to identify candidates who fit with a company’s culture, who will work well with others, and who will be trustworthy and help solve, rather than create, employment-related issues. As a result, many employers have adopted processes designed to identify latent issues with applicants, such as criminal history inquiries and background checks. While for many years employers took these steps with relatively limited legal restriction or government oversight, trends such as “ban-the box” are now sweeping across the country, and agencies like the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission are taking aggressive action to combat perceived areas for potential discrimination and unfairness in pre-employment inquiries. In this program of particular interest to in-house lawyers, Foley & Lardner LLP employment law attorneys Christopher Ward, John Litchfield and Natasha Dorsey cover the legislative and enforcement trends and explore the best ways employers across multiple industries can continue taking diligent efforts to identify strong employment candidates while remaining on the right side of the law during this season of rapid development in the legal landscape.
