Michael Klazema

Michael's Recent Publications

New York City Expands Fair Chance Employment Ordinance

By Michael Klazema | 02/2/2021

A new amendment to New York City’s Fair Chance Act significantly expands ban the box legislation. The changes will affec...

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Avoiding Data Bias When Hiring

By Michael Klazema | 01/28/2021

Using AI in hiring can help bring new efficiencies to the process. It can also bring “data bias,” in which an AI framewo...

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Trends in Background Checks to Watch in 2021

By Michael Klazema | 01/15/2021

How will employee background checks change and evolve in 2021? Few people could have predicted the ways that hiring and ...

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How Should Companies Handle Employee Vetting in a Work-From-Home World?

By Michael Klazema | 11/26/2020

When the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic spurred lockdowns that swept across the nation, many employers found themselves...

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What Proposition 22 Means for Uber, Lyft, and Ridesharing Background Checks

By Michael Klazema | 11/19/2020

On November 3, voters in California approved “Proposition 22,” a proposal that effectively creates a brand-new employmen...

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Navigating EEOC Compliance During COVID-19

By Michael Klazema | 11/12/2020

To say that the COVID-19 pandemic turned the business world upside-down is an understatement. From a massive shift to re...

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New Law Change in Pennsylvania Makes ‘Clean Slate’ More Accessible to Ex-Offenders

By Michael Klazema | 11/10/2020

Two years ago, Pennsylvania passed a revolutionary law that vowed to automatically seal tens of millions of criminal rec...

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Banning the Box on College Applications

By Michael Klazema | 11/3/2020

Could ban the box policies be heading toward college campuses? Based on a new law pending in Pennsylvania, the answer is...

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EEOC Takes Aim at Discriminatory Business Practices

By Michael Klazema | 10/29/2020

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s purview isn’t limited to setting guidelines for hiring and publishing expl...

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Lawsuit Alleges Corruption and Background Check Failures in NYC School Transportation Department

By Michael Klazema | 10/20/2020

Recent developments within New York City’s Department of Education—specifically its Office of Pupil Transportation (OPT)...

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