Human Side of HR Decisions

Managing Local Government: Cases in Effectiveness: Essential Management Practices: The Human Side of HR Decisions explores the options of how to ask whether applicants have been convicted of a crime on employment applications. This e-book stresses the need for all employers, in consultation with their attorneys, to develop two things: (1) appropriate releases for reference checking and background investigations and (2) appropriate policies to respond to questionable results that are in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.