Please Help, another name on background check.

[MLR24]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? State of PA
Well I'm not sure if anyone can help. The short short version is that I was offered a position of work after multiple phone interviews. This is bases on passing a drug and background check. I know i passed 100% drug screen test but I'm unsure about the background check. The future employer will no longer return my emails when asking for updates. I fear it is my background check. I was once told previously another name appeared on my background check of which I have no idea how it got there I do not have an Alias, and fear someone has put in another name under my background. I am unsure what steps to take or who to contact for help.

 

[CTU]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? State of PA
Well I'm not sure if anyone can help. The short short version is that I was offered a position of work after multiple phone interviews. This is bases on passing a drug and background check. I know i passed 100% drug screen test but I'm unsure about the background check. The future employer will no longer return my emails when asking for updates. I fear it is my background check. I was once told previously another name appeared on my background check of which I have no idea how it got there I do not have an Alias, and fear someone has put in another name under my background. I am unsure what steps to take or who to contact for help.

What happened when you called the employer?

 

[PayrollHRGuy]

I also agree that you should call the would be employer. If they do say it was your background or they keep ignoring you and you really feel it was your background check that caused it you should know there are thing an employer is supposed to do if they use a background check service.

https://www1.eeoc.gov/eeoc/publications/background_checks_employers.cfm

When taking an adverse action (for example, not hiring an applicant or firing an employee) based on background information obtained through a company in the business of compiling background information, the FCRA has additional requirements:

Before you take an adverse employment action, you must give the applicant or employee:
a notice that includes a copy of the consumer report you relied on to make your decision; and
a copy of "A Summary of Your Rights Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act," which you should have received from the company that sold you the report.
By giving the person the notice in advance, the person has an opportunity to review the report and explain any negative information.

After you take an adverse employment action, you must tell the applicant or employee (orally, in writing, or electronically):
that he or she was rejected because of information in the report;
the name, address, and phone number of the company that sold the report;
that the company selling the report didn't make the hiring decision, and can't give specific reasons for it; and
that he or she has a right to dispute the accuracy or completeness of the report, and to get an additional free report from the reporting company within 60 days.

 

[MLR24]

Thank you for a response

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? State of PA
Well I'm not sure if anyone can help. The short short version is that I was offered a position of work after multiple phone interviews. This is bases on passing a drug and background check. I know i passed 100% drug screen test but I'm unsure about the background check. The future employer will no longer return my emails when asking for updates. I fear it is my background check. I was once told previously another name appeared on my background check of which I have no idea how it got there I do not have an Alias, and fear someone has put in another name under my background. I am unsure what steps to take or who to contact for help.

I have been trying to contact the employer but I am not receiving any response from them.
It went from daily communication with multiple people to no responses from emails I sent for the last 7 days.
I was going to email once more tomorrow and then place a phone call as well.
It is just very weird to be officially offered a position in writing, then after filling out the background consent form and submitting it with a confirmation of receipt, that there is no communication from the employer side at all.
Everything just stopped. I have never had a criminal past I.e arrests, dui, etc.. but as I mentioned in the last thread, I was once told by my former employer, a company wanted to do an individual background check on technicians coming to their site (I'm a field installer) and when they completed their check, another name came up under my background check. I told my employer I have no alias and they were at a loss. I never wound up going there but at same time I was so busy, I brushed it off as it had to be a mistake. I now am thinking otherwise.

Thank you for your responses and information so far with the EOE. I was unaware of this.

 

[commentator]

I disagree. I suspect you may have turned the employer off by your too much checking, following up, demanding to know when you can start to work. And now they've stopped answering your emails, and phone calls....can you blame them?

Some people want answers right now. They usually don't make great employees. I'd just let this one lie for a while, before checking, see if they will give you any response concerning the reason they didn't hire you. Or it might be they just got busy doing something else, and didn't get to check you, and then you began this barrage of demanding to know what's going on, and they think you have self identified as a pill to work with, and are not going to hire you for that reason, not because of something you're worried about that POSSIBLY might be a problem on your background check.

You have NO definitive proof that this is a problem, just that someone told you in the past that something fishy turned up and you never checked on it, so what you're doing is beating an issue to death and probably doing yourself out of a job by demanding a response when you want it.