Nevada Bans Most Job-Related Credit Checks

Nevada has just become the tenth state to ban most credit background checks by state employers effective Oct. 1, 2013. Originally, Senate Bill 127 banned every form of credit check by every form of employer, but in a subsequent compromise, financial institutions and...

EEOC Files and Settles First GINA Discrimination Lawsuit

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently settled its first discrimination lawsuit based on the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), but in truth, it came upon the triggering violation almost by accident. When Rhonda Jones filed a charge...