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    Default Re: Termination After Google Search

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    My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Florida
    I have a 2013 conviction for drug possession and credit card/check fraud. I am serving probation and have been clean.
    I work as a medical assistant in a small health care office for the last 4 months. My employer did not request a back ground check and I did not disclose this information to him. One of my coworkers googled my name and found an article detailing my arrest. Can my boss fire me for this if I did not authorize a background check?
    Yes. And the termination would not be wrongful. The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) requires that an employer get an employee’s consent to run a background check (called a consumer report in the Act) through a third party background company. The FCRA does not apply to the background check the company itself does. Thus, if the company does an internet search and finds a newspaper article about you or finds court public records about you, it may use that information even if you did not give prior consent to the employer to do those searches.

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