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Background Checks in Hiring—What Employers Can (and Can’t) Do

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Introduction

Run­ning back­ground checks on job appli­cants is a pret­ty stan­dard part of the hir­ing process these days. But just because some­thing is com­mon doesn’t mean it’s sim­ple. Between fed­er­al laws, state reg­u­la­tions, and pri­va­cy con­cerns, employ­ers have to walk a fine line. And for appli­cants, it’s impor­tant to under­stand your rights—especially if some­thing from your past might show up.

Let’s break down how back­ground checks work, what’s allowed under fed­er­al and West Vir­ginia law, and how both sides of the hir­ing table can han­dle the process with­out cross­ing legal lines.

What Is a Background Check?

In the employ­ment con­text, a back­ground check is any review of an applicant’s his­to­ry to help an employ­er decide whether to hire them. That can include:

  • Crim­i­nal history
  • Cred­it reports
  • Employ­ment and edu­ca­tion verification
  • Dri­ving records
  • Ref­er­ence checks
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Project 2025

Project 2025, President Trump, and Employment Law

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The Her­itage Foun­da­tion devel­oped Project 2025 as some­thing of a blue­print for a con­ser­v­a­tive rev­o­lu­tion of gov­er­nance in the Unit­ed States under what was hoped to be an upcom­ing elec­tion of Don­ald Trump in the 2024 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. Hence, “Project 2025” refers to the blue­print and imple­men­ta­tion plans for new Trump admin­is­tra­tion after the Novem­ber 2024 election.

Project 2025 is far more than an an abstract state­ment of pro­posed poli­cies. It is express­ly a “Pres­i­den­tial Tran­si­tion Project” for the new Tump admin­is­tra­tion, includ­ing advice on get­ting a job in the new Trump admin­is­tra­tion, train­ing for new employ­ees (includ­ing detailed train­ing videos for new employ­ees in the admin­is­tra­tion), and a “180-day play­book” for aggres­sive­ly and quick­ly imple­ment­ing Project 2025’s changes in gov­er­nance in the new Trump administration.

You can go to Project 2025 and see that it has pol­i­cy state­ments on an extreme­ly broad range of issues, and those pol­i­cy state­ments are hun­dreds of pages in length.

ProP­ub­li­ca obtained numer­ous train­ing videos pre­pared by the Her­itage Foun­da­tion for the per­sons to be hired into the Trump admin­is­tra­tion for the “tran­si­tion project”. The train­ing video on “Left-Wing Code Words and Biased Lan­guage” illus­trates many of the planned changes relat­ing to gen­der issues.

Project 2025 plans extensive changes in employment law

Some of the most impor­tant and sweep­ing changes envi­sioned under Project 2025 are for employ­ment law and employ­ment rela­tion­ships in the Unit­ed States, both in the pri­vate and pub­lic sectors. 

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