Duty of Care
Statistics and employment screening background checks
By admin at 12 January, 2010, 3:00 pm
In an article on background checks posted on Workforce Management in January, 2010, it was suggested that “Employment and criminal checks also do little to screen out those who commit fraud.” The reason is that statistics from a 2008 report by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners based on 959 cases of workplace fraud showed [...]
Read More >>2010 Trend on more lawsuits including class action litigation over accuracy, privacy, and consumer rights
By admin at 6 January, 2010, 4:29 am
2010 Trends in Screening–Trend Two:
Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a leading national online employment screening background firm, is releasing the ESR “Third Annual Top Ten Trends in the Pre-Employment Background Screening Industry” for 2010. This is the SECOND of the ten trends ESR will be tracking in 2010. The ten trends will be released over the next [...]
Employee Problems are Caused by Problem Employees
By admin at 29 December, 2009, 3:23 am
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.
Read More >>Defenses That Do and Do Not Work in Negligent Hiring Cases
By admin at 27 December, 2009, 5:28 pm
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 [...]
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