Statistics and employment screening background checks
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 [...]
Categories: Best Practices, Duty of Care, Recent Posts, Statistics Tags: background, check, criminal, employee, employment
2010 Trend on more lawsuits including class action litigation over accuracy, privacy, and consumer rights
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 [...]
Categories: Best Practices, Class Action Lawsuits, Duty of Care, Recent Posts, Trends Tags: background, check, employment, national, online
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.
Categories: Best Practices, due diligence, Duty of Care, ESR, Recent Posts Tags: background, check, employee, employment
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 [...]
Categories: due diligence, Duty of Care, Negligent hiring, Recent Posts Tags: background, best, check, criminal