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		<title>New White Paper: The Importance of Policy Guidelines for Fair Use of Criminal History Checks and Vendor Access Programs in Avoiding Litigation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The days when employers had to concern themselves only with screening the backgrounds of full-time employees are gone. The employment and screening landscape has changed dramatically, demanding that employers concern themselves with the backgrounds of contractors or vendors entering their premises, or working on their behalf in customer homes.  CARCO has created a white paper [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carcoblog.com/?p=149</link>
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		<title>FTC Proposes Changes to Update and Improve Credit Reporting Notices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Federal Trade Commission, FTC, credit reporting notices, Fair Credit Reporting Act, FCRA, credit report information]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carcoblog.com/?p=142</link>
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		<title>ILLINOIS PROHIBITS USE OF CREDIT INFORMATION IN EMPLOYMENT DECISION WITH LIMITED EXCEPTIONS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Employee Credit Privacy Act (H.B. 4658)
Signed into Law on: August 10, 2010
Effective Date:  January 1, 2011
Illinois has become the most recent state to react to the effect of the impact on the economic downturn on employees’ credit histories by restricting employers from using credit information in employment decisions.
Details of the Act:

Prohibits most employers from using [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carcoblog.com/?p=136</link>
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		<title>Department of Homeland Security issues a Final Rule on I-9 electronic storage and signature.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Effective August 23, 2010:
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security published a final rule amending an interim final rule on the electronic signature and storage of the Form I-9. This final rule makes minor changes to the interim final rule to clarify:
Time to Complete Form I-9: 

Employers must complete a Form I-9 within three business days (not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carcoblog.com/?p=132</link>
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		<title>Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick signed a new law that allows employers to obtain criminal records of job applicants over the Internet for the first time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON &#8211; Gov. Deval L. Patrick on Friday signed a new law that allows employers to obtain criminal records of job applicants over the Internet for the first time, overhauls the state’s mandatory minimum sentencing laws for certain drug offenses and bans sex offenders from driving ice cream trucks.
The new law makes significant changes to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carcoblog.com/?p=130</link>
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		<title>Important E-Verify Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[E- Verify Update as of June 29 2010. 
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a Privacy Impact Assessment update of the E-Verify program. In the update, DHS provides an update about additional information that E-Verify will now require from new employers that register with the employment eligibility verification system. This new information will be sent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carcoblog.com/?p=126</link>
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		<title>Attorney General&#8217;s Report on Criminal History Background Checks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last several months, I have initiated and participated in several blogs about the importance of conducting thorough criminal history record checks as part of the pre employment screening process and the use of databases. This is a very important step in the vetting process which can not only help in hiring the right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carcoblog.com/?p=123</link>
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		<title>Fred Giles, VP Research, CARCO Group, Inc.- Security Management Article June 2010 Issue &#8211; &#8220;Checking From A Distance&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sec Mgmt &#8211; Checking from a Distance Jun 2010
Fred Giles, CARCO&#8217;s VP of Research, is an industry expert on vendor screening.  He recently wrote an informative article on the subject for Security Mangement Magazine. The article, &#8220;Checking from a Distance&#8221;, explains why companies should ensure that contract employees undergo background checks, but they must not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carcoblog.com/?p=112</link>
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		<title>CARCO Exhibiting at the SHRM Annual Conference in San Diego – June 27 &#8211; 29</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Doreen Koronios
The SHRM Annual Conference is always a great event and we look forward every year to seeing our friends and colleagues there.  Although we are excited to discuss all of the services we offer to make your applicant screening process easy, efficient and compliant (pre employment, executive and vendor screening, I-9/E-Verify, drug testing, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carcoblog.com/?p=103</link>
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		<title>E-Verify Evolution: Letters and Notices now in nine (9) languages!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Updated E-Verify News:
(May 14, 2010) E-Verify is expanding its resources that support effective employer-employee communication of the E-Verify tentative nonconfirmation (TNC) and referral processes. E-Verify now offers the Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration TNC notices and referral letters in nine languages, including English, Spanish, Chinese, Haitian-Creole, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Tagalog, and Vietnamese. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.carcoblog.com/?p=97</link>
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