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Hire Image  reports that, effective July 28, 2019, Washington employers with 15 or more employees are prohibited from asking applicants or their current or former employers about their prior wages or salaries.  Employers are also prohibited from requiring an applicant’s prior wage or salary history meet certain criteria.  Employers can confirm an applicant’s prior salary if the applicant voluntarily discloses the information or after the employer has made an offer of employment, with compensation. Additionally, if the applicant requests, the new law requires an employer to provide the wage scale or salary range for the position for which the applicant is applying, after an offer has been made at  Hire Image . This requirement includes internal transfers and promotions. If no wage scale or salary exists for the position, the employer must provide the salary expectation prior to posting. For more information about the growing trend of salary history bans,...

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper recently signed an executive order that bans public employers from asking salary history questions in the hiring process.  The order goes further in directing public employers to also avoid relying on previously obtained salary history information to determine an applicant’s salary.  The North Carolina salary history ban for public employers is effective immediately.  Will private employers be next? For more information about the growing trend of salary history bans, please visit our  Hire Image  Resource Library. Originally Posted:-  https://www.hireimage.org/north-carolina-public-employers-may-no-longer-ask-about-salary-history/

Effective September 29, 2019:  Illinois employers are prohibited from: (1) screening job applicants by requiring that the wage or salary history of an applicant satisfy minimum or maximum criteria, (2) requesting a wage or salary history as a condition of: being considered for employment, being interviewed, continuing to be considered for an offer of employment, an offer of employment or an offer of compensation, (3) requesting that an applicant disclose wage or salary history as a condition of employment, or (4) seeking the wage or salary history, including benefits or other compensation, of a job applicant from any current or former employer. The Illinois law does not apply if the job applicant’s wage or salary history is a matter of public record or the job applicant is a current employee and is applying for a position with the same current employer. An employer or employment agency may still provide information about the wages, benefits, compensation, or ...

While employers and human resource professionals may like to believe that all job candidates are honest about their past experience and education, this is unfortunately not the case. Resume fraud is becoming more prevalent in today’s marketplace, and it is important for employers to know if they are truly hiring who they think they’re hiring.  Hire Image  train their staff to be extremely thorough in the verification process. Applicants embellish their credentials on resumes and job applications for various reasons. In a competitive job market, individuals seek to set themselves apart from their opponents. High rates of unemployment make people desperate to stand out, and many feel one of the only ways to do this is to lie about their qualifications on their resumes. A 2012 study completed by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) found that some key reasons job seekers lie on resumes include envy of others succeeding, a lack of confidence in their j...

In our technologically advanced world, it is not surprising that employers take advantage of social media to recruit and hire potential employees. Many employers have turned to social media as a way to screen and monitor the behavior of both potential and current employees. From gaining insight into the type of person a candidate is, to determining if they present themselves in a professional manner, employers can gauge if the candidate is a good fit for the company at  Hire Image . But just how practical and useful is this information, and what are the legal implications? One practical application for using social media is for recruiting. A 2011 study done by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) found that 76% of companies use or plan on using social media sites for recruiting. Many individuals seeking employment use social media platforms to make themselves known to employers, and also to research potential employers. When social media is used in this way, i...

The Boston School Department deserves praise for putting the safety of its students first and foremost. Recently while conducting system-wide background checks of all of its 9,000 employees at  Hire Image  Companies, the Department identified 14 employees with criminal charges and either fired or placed them on administrative leave. Criminal records ranged from possession of drugs to rape charges. These were not necessarily convictions, but the Department has a policy proposal on the table for school officials to consider non-convictions in making employment decisions. We recently had a client in who was recruiting for a janitorial position at a school. Had the focus been solely on convictions, the person who was “only” arrested 8 times for child molestation – not “convicted” – would have gotten the job to work in a school. Why hadn’t the person been found guilty or convicted, you’re wondering? After ordering the police report and full court records, it turned o...