An honest employee is someone every employer expects, and it should be a quality that hiring managers look for in screening job candidates. Unfortunately, applicants seeking a position have the incentive to exaggerate and embellish their qualifications, and to conceal any weak areas. This week’s Feature from the CCH HR Compliance Library reports on a recent OfficeTeam survey revealing how prevalent the dishonesty is, and tips for hiring managers in clarifying or verifying the information contained in applications and resumes.

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E-Verify, a free web-based program that “verifies” whether an individual is legally permitted to work in the United States, has been promoted by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as “the best means available to determine the employment eligibility of new employee hires,” and “a smart, simple and effective tool.” However, according to one immigration expert, E-Verify presents employers with the choice of discriminating, or suffering a substantial cost in hiring. This week’s Feature from CCH News offers a commentary from Michael Wildes, a managing Partner at Wildes & Weinberg PC, a prominent immigration law firm.

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Employers who are tempted to do background searches of candidates using the Internet and social media as tools may be placing themselves at legal risk, according to management consultant and author David P. Jones. In this week’s Feature from CCH News, he lists the pitfalls of checking social media for recruiting and hiring.

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“Often, without knowing it, companies violate a host of laws when they use social media sources to recruit top talent, or when they use these sites to collect information about potential candidates. And social media aren't the only technology solutions that can open the door to legal problems,” says author and management expert David P. Jones. This week’s Feature from CCH News reports on what Jones sees as the pitfalls in checking social media when making a hiring decision.

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Lengthy periods of unemployment due to the poor economy has focused the attention of enforcement agencies on the practice of some employers who screen out the unemployed for job consideration. Although the extent of the practice is unclear, it nonetheless can be problematic, since it can disproportionately affect women, minorities, and individuals with disabilities. This week’s Feature from CCH HRAnswersNow discusses the pros and cons of using current employment as a criteria for job selection.

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As technology advances and gets easier and more inexpensive to use, employers see the results as job candidates strive to make their resumes stand out via video resumes, websites, and the like. While equal employment opportunity laws do not generally prohibit use of video resumes as an employment selection tool, the key is how the videos are used, according to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Assistant Legal Counsel Carol R. Miaskoff. This week’s Feature from CCH HRAnswersNow provides a roadmap for the proper use of video as a job selection tool.

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The Internal Revenue Service is encouraging small businesses to take advantage of tax-saving opportunities included in recently enacted federal legislation, including the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act and the Affordable Care Act. Read more

A bad hire can result in a legal and financial nightmare; bad hires can cost an employer wasted time in recruiting, hiring and training, the job not being done, potential litigation if the new employee turns out to be unfit, dishonest, or dangerous, says consultant Lester Rosen.

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It is a “myth” that employers are trying to use credit reports to deny employment, attorney and management consultant Lester Rosen says. Read more

The companies that are hiring are no doubt being inundated with applicants, but selecting the best applicant for the job often becomes a gamble if the company only relies on traditional methods of assessing the candidate.

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As employers expand on using social networking sites such as Facebook or MySpace for background checks, consultant Lester Rosen says that the law is still evolving regarding discriminatory information, privacy interests, and other issues. Read more

The business community is invited to participate in a voluntary collaborative program with U.S. Read more

Increased mandates from federal and state governments to require industries, especially the sensitive ones, to step up their background checks of applicants, is one of the top ten background checking trends for 2009, says attorney and Read more

Approximately 6.6 million employment verification queries under the E-Verify program were run during FY 2008, compared to 3.27 million in FY 2007, ( Categories : Employment | Hiring )

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Although U.S. employers are projecting a slight decline in hiring for the third quarter of 2008, they “are generally not reacting with large-scale payroll reductions,” according to a Manpower Inc. spokesman.
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