The fifth edition of the Global Retail Theft Barometer has just been published by the Centre for Retail Research and reveals a 6.6% increase over previous years in overall retail shrinkage and hit its highest mark since 2007. The study attributes shoplifting, employee theft, supplier fraud, administrative errors and organized retail crime as the combined cause of $119 billion in total global retail shrinkage for 2011 as reported from 43 countries. This staggering number equates to over 1.45% of total sales as compared to last year’s study of 1.36%. The United States rounded out the top ten of highest reporting countries at 1.59% of total loss. Learn More>>
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced this week that a meeting will be held on January 31st 2012 from 9 AM to 3PM EST to focus on the use of Synthetic Opioids. This public meeting will discuss the science of synthetic opioids as potential analytes (chemicals to be tested within an analytical procedure) to be included in the mandatory guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs. Learn More>>
Owings Mills, MD - December 28, 2011 - Employment Background Investigations, Inc (EBI), an industry innovator and leader in global background screening, drug testing and occupational healthcare solutions, recently announced that President and CEO Richard (Rick) Kurland has been named a 2011 “Smart100 CEO” by Baltimore SmartCEO magazine. In the Baltimore SmartCEO Smart100 list that was published earlier this year, Mr. Kurland joins an elite group of only 99 other local leaders. Learn More>>