David Barron, a member of Cozen O’Connor’s Labor & Employment Department, discusses an employer’s task of unearthing potentially negative information about a prospective employee before hiring. Many employers only look for criminal convictions and even limit how deeply they check into a potential employee’s background because of the expensive cost. “I’ve had cases where we get in a lawsuit and we find that the person had a long criminal record in Maine or something, and the employer is here in Texas and they never ran a criminal background check in Maine,” said David.

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