News and Analysis from Kelley Drye’s Labor and Employment Practice
News and Analysis from Kelley Drye’s Labor and Employment Practice
Just a reminder that New York City’s “Ban the Box” law, the Fair Chance Act, actually goes into effect today, October 27, 2015.
We summarized the key provisions of the law in a prior post. The new law now provides that employers cannot do background checks until the conditional offer has been extended.…
As previously reported, among the legislation passed this year under Mayor DeBlasio, New York City passed the “Fair Chance Act” (“FCA”), which severely restricts an employer’s ability to conduct criminal background checks on prospective employees. We first wrote about the Act when New York City banned the use of credit background checks, becoming the…
With the New York City “Stop Credit Discrimination in Employment Act” now in effect (as of September 3, 2015), the City Commission has just released guidelines for some ambiguous points in the law. We first wrote about the Act in a post in April when New York City became the twelfth jurisdiction in…
On April 16, 2015, New York City became the twelfth jurisdiction in the country to bar the use of credit background checks in hiring and employment decisions. The New York City Council passed Intro-261-A, informally named the “Stop Credit Discrimination in Employment Act,” by a 47-3 vote. The bill would amend the New York…
In the appeal of a lawsuit brought by the EEOC over a Texas employer’s use of background checks in the hiring process, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Freeman, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals slammed the EEOC’s sloppy investigative work and dismissed the suit.
The underlying case arose from a racial discrimination charge brought…
The employee notice requirements of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) at times seem like form over substance – but recent litigation underscores that, well, filling out the forms really does matter.
The craft supply retailer Michaels Stores, Inc. was sued with a proposed class action in January alleging that the company’s background check notices …
