The Society for Human Resource Management, the world's largest association devoted to human resource management representing more than 250,000 members in 140 countries, has issued a statement on the use of criminal background checks in response to a new study by the National Employment Law Project that recommends reforming criminal background checks used for employment screening of job applicants since roughly 65 million US adults -- more than one in four -- have criminal records.
Society for human resource management issues statement on the use of criminal background checks