due diligence

Due Diligence Checklist Employers Can Use for Employment Screening Process

By Lester Rosen, ESR President
The following ‘Due Diligence Checklist’ contains questions employers can use to find out if an employment screening company is utilizing due diligence in its employment screening process. A .PDF version of this ‘Due Diligence Checklist’ that employers can download and print is located at http://www.esrcheck.com/docs/Due-Diligence-22.pdf.

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Kentucky Case Uncovers Holes in Background Checks for Nursing Home Employees

by Thomas Ahearn, ESR News Staff Writer
A case against a Kentucky nursing home may reveal holes in laws meant to protect nursing home residents since the state only requires criminal background checks for employees caring directly for nursing home residents but not background checks for nursing home support staff like maintenance workers.
According to a story [...]

Credit Reporting Agency Fights to Preserve Use of Credit Checks during Employment Background Checks

By Lester Rosen, President of ESR & Thomas Ahearn, ESR Staff Writer
With 15 million workers currently unemployed according to recent Department of Labor statistics, it has been argued that job applicants risk getting caught in a “Catch-22” situation where they have bad credit because they cannot get jobs but cannot get jobs because they have [...]

NFL Teams Use Background Checks to Help Draft College Football Players as New Employees

By Thomas Ahearn, ESR Staff Writer
It is not uncommon for employers these days to use pre-employment background checks to help them hire new employees. Recent surveys from the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) revealed approximately 75% of employers – three out of four – used background checks during their pre-employment screening of job applicants.
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Employee Problems are Caused by Problem Employees

Problem employees usually cause employee problems. An employer is certainly ahead if they can try to minimize the problem employees in the first place by the use of pre-employment background screening.

Defenses That Do and Do Not Work in Negligent Hiring Cases

If an employer is sued for negligent hiring on the basis that they hired someone that they either knew or in the exercise of reasonable care should have know was dangerous, unqualified, unfit or dishonest, and it was reasonably foreseeable that some of harm could occur, an employer can be sued for negligent hiring.  That [...]

International Background checks

Did you know?  Given the mobility of workers across international borders, an employer’s obligation of due diligence may no longer be limited to employment screening just in the United States. A 2000 government study shows that 11.5 percent of the population consists of immigrants, and an increasing number of workers have spent part of their [...]