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		<title>Domino’s Pizza and Capital One Taking Heat from Alleged FCRA Violations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Law firm Nichols Caster announced last week that former Domino’s Pizza employees will be allowed to proceed with putative class action against the company for alleged background check violations. According to the Nichols Caster press release, the United States District Court denied Defendant Domino’s Pizza’s motion to dismiss the case of Singleton, et al., v. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Ain’t Over ‘Til the Church Lady Steals a Million Dollars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If a little ‘ole church lady would embezzle a million dollars from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York what makes you think the seemingly nice person you just hired won’t do the same or similar to your business? In the words of the Dana Carvey version, “Isn’t that just special”! The New York Times [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.proformascreening.com/blog/2012/02/church-lady-steals/</link>
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		<title>Can Your Employment Screening Program Survive a Hiring Frenzy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If recent weeks around the Proforma Screening Solutions office are any indication, you could be facing an upswing in hiring demand this year. We’ve been seeing an unusually high volume of requests for employment background checks from our current customers. Our suppliers have reported similar trends. In our experience, hiring upticks don’t usually arrive in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.proformascreening.com/blog/2012/01/employment-screening-program-hiring/</link>
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		<title>Pepsi is Latest to Face EEOC’s Aggressive Stance on Employment Criminal Records</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ask any HR professional to name a company they admire and you’ll likely hear the name Pepsi. Long known for its leadership in quality HR practices, it comes as no surprise to us that the Pepsi organization was among the targets of the EEOC’s more aggressive stance concerning the use of employment criminal records. Employers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.proformascreening.com/blog/2012/01/pepsi-eeoc-settlement/</link>
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		<title>Need Help Evaluating and Selecting a Background Screening Company?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hiring a background screening company for your employment screening program seems like a fairly straight-forward task. If your goal is to simply ‘check the box’ with the bare minimum requirements, it can indeed be a simple endeavor. But if you’re like many employers today, you have come to the following realizations: Organizations compete on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.proformascreening.com/blog/2012/01/evaluate-background-screening-company/</link>
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		<title>Hire the Right People and You Win</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jack Welch once famously said &#8220;nothing matters more in winning than getting the right people on the field.&#8221; As an employment screening company, it is this notion that guides our efforts to help companies bring the right people on board. In line with this idea, we were pleased to come across an awesome post on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.proformascreening.com/blog/2012/01/hire-the-right-people/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Employment Screening Articles of 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Proforma Screening Solutions Blog, we&#8217;ve rounded up the most-read employment screening articles of 2011. Interestingly, these articles also touch on many of the most significant trends in background screening industry today.  Read and comment! #1: EEOC Focus on Criminal Background Checks Underscores Importance of a Holistic Approach This article was our #1 most-read in 2010 and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.proformascreening.com/blog/2011/12/top-employment-screening-articles/</link>
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		<title>What’s a High School Diploma Worth, Anyway?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey employers, don’t worry if that job applicant lacks a high school diploma. It’s no big deal. Really, what’s the difference between an individual who has completed high school and one who dropped out? Why are you being so picky and unfair? This recent EEOC discussion letter targets an employer’s high school diploma requirement as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.proformascreening.com/blog/2011/12/education-verification-diplomas/</link>
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		<title>Once Again, Quality Employment Screening Beats Saving a Dollar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In yet another case where doing employment screening right is the right thing to do, this story comes out of the Myrtle Beach Herald. The newspaper reports that the father of a former St. James Middle School student is suing Horry County Schools over the district’s hiring of a teacher who had sex with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.proformascreening.com/blog/2011/12/quality-employment-screening/</link>
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		<title>Background Screening or Finger Crossing: Which Should You Rely On?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let’s face it. We all want to trust the people we choose to hire. And it sure would be nice to avoid the time and expense of running employment background checks on each and every employee for each and every position. But sadly, we just don’t have that luxury in today’s litigious world. One University [...]]]></description>
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