Master Licensing Investigation Training Book

12/6/18

International Screening

NIGAMaster Certification Series

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© 2016 AmericanChecked Inc.

Screening Issues are Global • May 2018: UK’s General Data Protection Regulation will be effective and enforceable. This regulation imposes strict requirements for the handling of personal data for all businesses in the UK and outlines the penalties for non-compliance and how the rules will be applied. • November 2017: Australia shares US anti-discrimination laws relating to hiring. For example, employers cannot conduct a criminal records search while a person is employed without express consent of the employee or use a person’s criminal record to deny employment, unless they can prove it is directly job-related.

• October 2017: The GDPR issued guidelines for employers and businesses that address profiling and automated decision-making.

• June 2017: Jamaica joins other countries in the fight to put ex-offenders back to work. Qualified individuals who have committed minor crimes now have the right to have their records expunged according to the Criminal Record (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act.

• May 2017: Israel reconsiders the current storage of criminal records, acknowledging that the current records in Hebrew only are not applicable to International Screening

• February 2017: APAC releases survey results indicating 1 in 5 APAC job applicants submitted false information on job applications.

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