Pre-Employ Blog

Pre-Employ now offers a new service which provides arrest monitoring in addition to pre-hire background checks.

Consistent arrest monitoring draws from databases throughout the country to check for arrests after a person is hired and becomes an employee at the company. It fills the gap left by a lack of national screening in the typical pre-employment background screening process: The service alerts the employer to potential post-hire insider threats once the employee is re-arrested and booked. This service is compliant with the FCRA, and provides numerous benefits to companies seeking to reduce and eliminate insider threats among their employees after the pre-hire phase.

Pre-screening of employees during the hiring process provides employers with a snapshot of the candidate's past work, financial, and legal history. Once a job offer both offered and accepted, monitoring of this same important information stops. Actions or behaviors by employees after they come on board often go unnoticed by management and HR departments. When a change in an employee's criminal or financial history has a potential impact on their ability to perform their job, employers need to know. This is why continuous monitoring, or rolling background checks, are increasing in popularity among many of today's employers. 

For the first time in history, criminal records will be sealed by automation.

In the past, if a person with a criminal record requests to seal their record from public viewing or use, they would need to hire an attorney and go through a long and often times expensive process. 

Starting July 26th in the state of Pennsylvania, up to 40,000,000 criminal records will be automatically sealed without a hearing or paperwork. 

Legislation has passed as part of the 2019/2020 New York State budget that increases the cost of the criminal history record fees conducted by the Office of Court Administration’s (OCA) Criminal History Records Search (CHRS) Unit to $95 each. The legislation fee increase is now in effect.

As most know, we are a dedicated E-Verify agent and offer a robust, proprietary platform (https://www.pre-employ.com/services-i9-compliance/) to help employers with their E-Verify needs and mandates.