With the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission increasingly pursuing cases of alleged discrimination in connection with employers’ use of criminal and financial background checks, companies are turning to sophisticated analytical tools to help protect and defend against lawsuits and investigations, according to Alvarez & Marsal's Charles Diamond and Jonathan Blumenstein.
In this Bloomberg BNA Insights article, Diamond and Blumenstein provide advice to corporate management and human resources professionals on how the EEOC is making determinations of bias in background checks as well as information on how companies can apply mathematical tools to protect themselves from any perception of discrimination, and challenge EEOC actions already underway.