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SEC Challenges Kinross For Not Doing Source Inquiries and Other Enhanced Due-Diligence.
When operating a gold mine in an African country known for corruption, try to be thorough in doing due-diligence on your contractors. If you skip...
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If you falsify your resume, and then do well at your job, the lies might go undiscovered for years.
Once someone gets his or her first job based on a fraudulent CV, promotions or moves to new employers can come easily, and without any reexamination...
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Compliance executives accountable for not terminating accused third parties
Federal prosecutors have held a former compliance chief for MoneyGram International Inc. personally responsible for failing to adequately enforce...
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#MeToo is also an earthquake for the due-diligence business
Corporate boards of directors are requiring that candidates for C-suite jobs be vetted more heavily than in the past to make sure they haven’t...
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Failing to properly vet prospective employees can endanger the workforce
A Texas jury awarded a $1.2-million verdict against a metal-fabrication company after one of its employees shot and killed another employee on the...
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Background Screening: If you want a proper background screening done, ask a teenager
Student journalists at a high-school newspaper in Kansas had a bad feeling when they looked at the CV of their school’s new principal who had just...
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The FBI uses fingerprints to do continual screening of workers in sensitive jobs
The FBI is using fingerprint technology to help school districts, airports, and other civilian organizations employing people in sensitive jobs, to...
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European companies must restrict use of social media in screening job applicants
A European Union data-protection panel is placing conditions on corporate HR executives who want to look into job seekers’ social-media accounts...
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Due diligence might have been a little weak; $500 million is missing
A group of global banks is being criticized for allegedly failing to do adequate due diligence into Mozambican maritime projects for which the banks...
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More companies do post-hire “continuous screening” of employees
While 99% of businesses perform background checks on prospective employees before hiring them, just under 25% continue to screen them once they’re in...