Michael Klazema

Michael Klazema is the lead author and editor for Dallas-based backgroundchecks.com with a focus on human resource and employment screening developments

Michael Klazema

Michael's Recent Publications

New York City Expands Fair Chance Employment Ordinance

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New York City Expands Fair Chance Employment Ordinance

A new amendment to New York City’s Fair Chance Act significantly expands ban the box legislation. The changes will affect how employers utilize background checks for existing employees, handle pending...

Avoiding Data Bias When Hiring

Avoiding Data Bias When Hiring

Using AI in hiring can help bring new efficiencies to the process. It can also bring “data bias,” in which an AI framework introduces biases from gender to racial discrimination. Here’s what employers...

Trends in Background Checks to Watch in 2021

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Trends in Background Checks to Watch in 2021

How will employee background checks change and evolve in 2021? Few people could have predicted the ways that hiring and work would shift in 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic pushing remote work and hir...

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Navigating EEOC Compliance During COVID-19

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Navigating EEOC Compliance During COVID-19

To say that the COVID-19 pandemic turned the business world upside-down is an understatement. From a massive shift to remote work to hard choices surroundi

Banning the Box on College Applications

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Banning the Box on College Applications

Could ban the box policies be heading toward college campuses? Based on a new law pending in Pennsylvania, the answer is yes. What You Need to Know about B

EEOC Takes Aim at Discriminatory Business Practices

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EEOC Takes Aim at Discriminatory Business Practices

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s purview isn’t limited to setting guidelines for hiring and publishing explainers on discrimination. The EEOC

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