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Unfair Employment Background Checks: Know Your Rights

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Updated on Author: Sergei Lemberg

Updated on Author: Sergei Lemberg

Employment Background Check Rights FCRAThe Accu-Facts Company is one of numerous employment background check agencies you’re likely to face during your job search. Find out who they are, what they do, and what rights you have under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)


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What is The Accu-Facts Company?

The Accu-Facts Company was founded in 1986 and is based in Perkiomenville, PA. It is a division of CEO Corporate Security Group, Inc.The company offers employment background screening services, personal and volunteer background screening and public record checks nationwide in the United States. It boasts that it is “a reliable background check company” and provides “Factual Data” to a wide range of U.S. organizations in all industries including medical and healthcare, banking and finance, transportation, construction, hospitality and professional office-based businesses.  The company website represents it “…locates, obtains, and delivers genuine Applicant information from the source, to confirm and validate the Applicant data or we prove otherwise with our field work.”

The Accu-Facts Company provides many types of screening and background check. Its pre-employment offerings include criminal and terrorist searches, Federal government and national security watch-list screening, immigration I-9 Verify services as well as education and employment verifications, motor vehicle records, credit reports, drug and health screenings, reference and license checks, and Social Security number tracing.

This company also offers new hire and post-employment screening. This includes identity and continuing immigration status verifications, employee audits and monitoring, random drug testing, and risk and compliance checks. The company website states that it is “FCRA, EEOC & DPPA Compliant for Every Assignment.”

The Accu-Facts Company Contact Information

The Accu-Facts Company
2 Salford Station Road
Box 177
Perkiomenville, PA 18074
Phone: 610-287-5300
Website: http://theaccu-factscompany.com/

Were You Harmed By False Information or Errors In Your The Accu-Facts Company Report?

Whether you get hired or promoted often depends on the information learned from an employment background check. A background check can come in many shapes and sizes. It may be as simple as verifying your social security number. Or it may include a detailed report of your credit and criminal history, or even information gathered from interviews of your friends and neighbors about your character and reputation.

Whatever the scope of the background check, the FCRA sets strict standards for how employers and background check companies get consent for and conduct background checks, and what they can do with the information they find.

If a background check company like Accu-Facts fails to meet those standards, the FCRA gives you rights.

If you feel you have been harmed by this Background Check Agency, click 844-685-9200 ☎ NOW to call us or go ahead and fill out our Contact Form. We will fight for your rights. Our services are absolutely FREE to you.

What are my Background Check Disclosure and Consent Rights?

You have a right to know if an employer will use information from a background check against you and an employer cannot obtain background check information without your express written consent.

A background check company cannot hand over your information to an employer unless the employer certifies that: (1) it has “clearly and conspicuously” disclosed to you in a separate document that it may obtain a background check; (2) you have authorized it to get the background check; and (3) it will provide you with advance notice of any adverse action based in any part on the background check report, a copy of the report, and a summary of your rights under the FCRA.

Your Right to a Mistake Free and Legally-Compliant Report From The Accu-Facts Company

A background check company must take reasonable steps to ensure its report is as accurate as possible.

The FCRA also puts limits on the negative information a background check report can include. A report cannot list civil suits, judgments, arrest records, paid tax liens, accounts in collection or most other negative information (except criminal convictions) after 7 years, or bankruptcies after 10 years. It also cannot list expunged convictions

Your Right to Dispute Dispositions and Discrepancies on an unfair Accu-Facts Company Report

If you don’t get a job because of information in a background check report, you are entitled to a copy of the report. You also have the right to dispute the report if it has errors or includes information it shouldn’t.

If you dispute report, the background check company must investigate and correct any errors within 30 days.

Your Right to Sue The Accu-Facts Company if your report includes inaccurate or illegal info

If you lost out on a job or promotion because an The Accu-Facts Company background check report included inaccurate or illegal information, you may be able to sue in federal court. If you sue and win, you will may be entitled to your actual damages or statutory damages up to $1,000, plus punitive damages, attorneys’ fees, and costs.

Actual Complaints Against The Accu-Facts Company

Hundreds of hardworking people just like you across the country who lost job opportunities due to an inaccurate or unfair employment background check reports have already sued companies like The Accu-Facts Company for FCRA violations.

Many of those lawsuits allege that the background check companies did not take reasonable steps to verify criminal background information and, as a result, falsely listed felony convictions, including expunged, outdated, or incorrect information, or misidentified the subject of the report. Some complaints allege that background check reports contained inaccurate educational, work, driving, credit or other personal information that the background check company was not responsive or did not properly handle disputes about inaccurate information. Some complainants have filed their lawsuits as class action complaints, on behalf of themselves and similarly situated people.

Ready to Assert Your FCRA Rights?

Fired or Not Hired Because of a The Accu-Facts Company Background Check? If so, you’re in the right place.

● Our 12-year track record of helping hardworking, regular people just like you speaks for itself. We have the experience, knowledge, and dedication to get you the best results possible.
● We’ve helped more than 25,000 consumers recover more than $50 million.
● We work to restore your reputation and get you the compensation you deserve. You focus on living your life.
● We care because we know what it’s like to lose out on a job because a faceless company didn’t follow the law.
● We will fight hard for you and won’t stop. We are not afraid to stand up to big, powerful companies. That’s what we do.
● It won’t cost you a penny out of pocket – you pay nothing until we win money for you.

Our mission is to fight for your rights. ✊

If you’re ready to assert your rights and fight incorrect information in your background check, we can help you get justice. Complete our form for a FREE case evaluation, or call ? 844-685-9200 NOW

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Sergei Lemberg

About the Author:

Sergei Lemberg is an attorney focusing on consumer law, class actions related to automotive issues, and personal injury litigation. With nearly two decades of experience, his areas of practice include Lemon Law (vehicle defects), Debt Collection Harassment, TCPA (illegal robocalls and texts), Fair Credit Reporting Act, Overtime claims, Personal Injury cases, and Class Actions. He has consistently been recognized as the nation's "most active consumer attorney." In 2020, Mr. Lemberg represented Noah Duguid before the United States Supreme Court in the landmark case Duguid v. Facebook. He is also the author of "Defanging Debt Collectors," a guide that empowers consumers to fight back against debt collectors and prevail, as well as "Lemon Law 101: The Laws That Lemon Dealers Don't Want You to Know."

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