Staffing firms are in business to help clients fill essential job roles. However, this has become increasingly difficult due to an unprecedented global talent shortage. According to a Gartner survey, ...

On September 2, the 2025 Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index revealed that the percentage of employees in the general U.S. workforce testing positive for fentanyl in random drug tests far exceeded ...

Pre-employment drug testing can feel overwhelming for many employers. What are the rules? Do certain drugs matter more? What doesn’t matter at all? What can you let slide? The hard part is that ...

-- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has guidelines on pre-employment testing at http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/factemployment_procedures.html. If you ...

I'm currently in a position to do some hiring for my company. I am exploring options of pre-employment screening services. I'm primarily interested in criminal background checks; I don't care about ...

As accountants we love to measure everything. We measure ourselves in terms of productivity, recovery, and time to close. We measure our firms and clients in terms of margins, investment analysis, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alonzo Martinez reports on employment laws and trends in HR tech. SB 5132 includes provisions to protect employees from adverse ...

The key to limiting employee problems is to avoid hiring problem employees by conducting pre-employment screening. Advances in technology have led to a new pre-employment screening option for ...

Artificial intelligence is transforming the hiring process. As we previously reported, tools like ChatGPT are making it easier for job seekers to generate resumes and cover letters that are likely to ...

I've been a police psychologist for 30 years; counseling, teaching, giving workshops, and writing books, both fiction and non-fiction. My fictional alter-ego, Dr. Dot Meyerhoff, has done a lot more ...

Employers in Washington who engage in pre-employment drug testing must re-evaluate their drug testing programs based on a new Washington law effective January 1, 2024. On May 9, 2023, Governor Inslee ...

California law generally requires an employer to compensate employees while employees are under the employer’s control. In addition, Labor Code section 2802 requires an employer to compensate its ...