On January 18, 2016, The Weiner Law Firm filed a Complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on behalf of our client, David Meriwether, against Ole Mexican Foods and S2 Verify.  Plaintiff alleges in the Complaint that Ole had hired him to be its Controller in

According to the American Bar Association, there are nearly 30,000 lawyers practicing in Georgia.  Very few, however, make the list of Legal Elite in Georgia Trend Magazine.  We are happy to announce that this year both Andy Weiner and Jeff Sand were named Legal Elite in the area of Labor and Employment

We receive numerous calls from applicants and employees who ask if they can sue a background check company for defamation because the background check company included inaccurate information on a background report. Sometimes the information is simply wrong – the background check contains someone’s else’s information. Sometimes the information is inaccurate –

When a background reporting company runs a background check, it typically takes an individual’s identifying information such as first name, middle name, last name, birthdate, social security number or other information, and tries to match that information to a court record. Problems often arise when multiple people have the same name and other

The Fair Credit Reporting Act requires background check companies to use reasonable procedures to ensure maximum possible accuracy of the information in their background reports.  All too often, however, background report companies make errors in background reports and do not utilize reasonable procedures to ensure the accuracy of the information in their

Have you applied for job recently and had a background check run on you? Was the background report run by one of the following consumer reporting agencies: Accurate Background American Databank EmployeeScreenIQ General Information Services, Inc. GoodHire Hirease Info Cubic IntelliCorp PreCheck Pre-employ.com Professional Screening SterlingBackCheck Trak 1 Technology Truescreen If any

On August 27, 2015, The Weiner Law Firm LLC filed a Class Action Complaint in federal court against ADP Screening & Selection Services, Inc., alleging that the company violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act when it allegedly failed to obtain the certifications required under the FCRA prior to furnishing consumer reports to

On July 15, 2015, the United States Department of Labor issued Interpretation No. 2015-1 concerning employers’ classification of workers as independent contractors. While employers classify workers as independent contractors for any number of reasons – including the desire to not pay overtime compensation to the workers since independent contractors are not entitled to overtime