Remaining compliant in your pre-employment background screening is becoming more difficult. Over the past several years many state and local jurisdictions have passed “fair chance” hiring laws that limit an employer’s use of a background report in their screening process of new applicants.

These laws limit the kinds of information a employer can considers upon hire and other information may no longer be available to consumer reporting agencies (CRA) and employers through expanded criminal record expungement, including automatic expungement in some cases.

CDL-Link keeps up to date on these requirements to help ensure that you remain compliant in this ever changing environment. For more information on recent changes coming in 2023 SHRM has an excellent article employers can refer to at: 2023 Brings New Challenges to Employment Screening Compliance (shrm.org)