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		<title>Make Your Business Resistant to Theft</title>
		<link>http://hiresafe.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/make-your-business-resistant-to-theft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this slow economy, employee and customer theft is a growing problem. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates that employee theft accounts for between $20 and $40 billion dollars in business losses. An employee is 15 times more likely to steal than a customer or non-employee, and 75 percent of all employee crime goes unnoticed. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiresafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9326666&amp;post=110&amp;subd=hiresafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protect your Workplace from Violence and Murder</title>
		<link>http://hiresafe.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/protect-your-workplace-from-the-violence-and-murder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Background Checks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t let an incident like the murder of Annie Le at Yale University happen in your workplace. Incidents of workplace violence happen regularly throughout the United States and threaten employers with liability on a daily basis. Yet statistics reveal that most employers fail to provide training on workplace violence and many do not even have a workplace [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiresafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9326666&amp;post=107&amp;subd=hiresafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Former U.S. anti-drug official&#8217;s arrest &#8216;a complete shock</title>
		<link>http://hiresafe.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/former-u-s-anti-drug-officials-arrest-a-complete-shock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drug Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resume Fraud]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hiresafe.wordpress.com/?p=103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Federal investigators say he served as a secret ally of traffickers while he was posted in Guadalajara. Reporting from Washington &#8211; As a high-ranking U.S. anti-drug official, Richard Padilla Cramer held front-line posts in the war on Mexico&#8217;s murderous cartels. He led an office of two dozen agents in Arizona and was the attache for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiresafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9326666&amp;post=103&amp;subd=hiresafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>With Possible Early Release of Convicts, Employers Should Review Background Check Policies</title>
		<link>http://hiresafe.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/with-possible-early-release-of-convicts-employers-should-review-background-check-policies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Background Checks]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hiresafe.wordpress.com/?p=88</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent story from BusinessInsurance.com, employers should review their background check policies since many states are discussing plans to release a number of convicts from prison early in an effort to lessen jail overcrowding and make up for budget shortfalls. For example, in California, MercuryNews.com reports that a three-judge federal panel has refused [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiresafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9326666&amp;post=88&amp;subd=hiresafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-Convicts in Workforce Pose Liability Problems</title>
		<link>http://hiresafe.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/ex-convicts-in-workforce-pose-liability-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California employers would be wise to take another look at their criminal background check policies in light of the possibility the state may be forced to release many prisoners early because of jail overcrowding, say some observers. Many employers, particularly large corporations, already have such policies in place. Nationally, all employers must contend, though, with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiresafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9326666&amp;post=83&amp;subd=hiresafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faking Your Resume</title>
		<link>http://hiresafe.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/faking-your-resume/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Background Checks]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hiresafe.wordpress.com/?p=80</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When we started working on a story about resume fraud and whether more people were lying on their resumes now because the job market is so tight, our biggest challenge was finding someone who would admit he or she lied on their resume. No easy task. I called some of the big names who made [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiresafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9326666&amp;post=80&amp;subd=hiresafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hiring Without the Headaches</title>
		<link>http://hiresafe.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/hiring-without-the-headaches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hiresafe.wordpress.com/?p=77</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Making the leap from business owner to employer takes a combination of faith, a strong stomach and smart planning. After all, once you decide to become an employer, you agree to take on a bushel of issues above and beyond just paying a regular salary. There are taxes to be withheld (for which you are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiresafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9326666&amp;post=77&amp;subd=hiresafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>E-Verify Mandate for Federal Contractors Begins</title>
		<link>http://hiresafe.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/e-verify-mandate-for-federal-contractors-begins-on-september-8/</link>
		<comments>http://hiresafe.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/e-verify-mandate-for-federal-contractors-begins-on-september-8/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Right-to-Work]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hiresafe.wordpress.com/?p=63</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s September 9th, 2009 and after four delays since January the E-Verify Federal Contractor Rule has finally been implemented. If you are currently a federal contractor or subcontractor, or hope to be, do you know if your workers – both current employees and future new hires – are legal? According to an article in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiresafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9326666&amp;post=63&amp;subd=hiresafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Employer May Be Liable for Worker’s Attack on Customer</title>
		<link>http://hiresafe.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/employer-may-be-liable-for-worker%e2%80%99s-attack-on-customer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Negligent Hiring]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hiresafe.wordpress.com/?p=61</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An employer may be held liable for damages caused by its employee’s physical assault of a customer because an employee’s angry outburst was a predicable risk of retail employment, the Fourth District  Court of Appeal has ruled. In an opinion certified yesterday for publication, Div. Three said a triable issue existed as whether an altercation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiresafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9326666&amp;post=61&amp;subd=hiresafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Employee Turnover And Your Business Profitability</title>
		<link>http://hiresafe.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/employee-turnover-and-your-business-profitability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Background Checks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is interesting that for all the charts and graphs displayed at meetings that you have attended t hat never once have you ever seen a graph of the true and major cost of &#8220;employee turnover&#8221;. Turnover is the polite management word for employee loss &#8211; whether it is from death, retirement, firings or in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiresafe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9326666&amp;post=59&amp;subd=hiresafe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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