Legal challenges, theft, endangerment, and negligent hiring claims are all on the rise. Employers are being penalized by juries for failing to make effective inquiries into candidates' backgrounds while the EEOC is scrutinizing employers for being extreme in conducting background investigations. During this live webcast, HR professionals will learn how to walk the balance beam between the courts and the EEOC, while protecting their business, employees, customers, and the public at large.

Participants will learn:

- Who should perform background checks and why
- What should be included in a background check and under what circumstances
- How to choose a background screening partner
- The impact of the EEOC on background checks

Who Should Attend:
HR Generalists, Recruiting and Staffing Specialists, and Managers responsible for making hiring decisions.

HR Recertification Credits:
This webcast has been approved for 1.00 (General) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute (www.hrci.org).

Certificates of completion will be provided upon request only to individually registered attendees. Attendance for the full webcast hour is required to receive recertification credits (partial credits cannot be provided). Groups of people participating in the webcast together must be registered and attend the webcast individually to receive certificates. Certificates will be sent via email to registered attendees in PDF form within 30 days of validated attendance.

Presenter's Biography:

Mary Anne Osborne, SPHR

With over 30 years' experience in the HR field, Mary Anne is well prepared to help businesses find solutions to their most troubling HR-related dilemmas. Her HR experiences have elevated her from HR Representative to the VP level in a multi-state healthcare industry leader before beginning her own consulting business. Along the way she spent time honing her skills in Employee Relations, Staffing, EEOC, Organizational Development, Compensation, and Training in the telecommunications, financial, automotive, higher education, and healthcare industries.