Why do background checks? Ask yourself this question; Are you willing to risk your company and your reputation? The cost of negligent hires, violence in the workplace, employee turnover, job related accidents, employee fraud and theft, litigation, drug or alcohol abuse and being held liable for not having knowledge of prior factors are all potential risks that you are exposing both yourself and your business interests to on a daily basis by Not completing a background check and/or pre-employment screening on your prospective new hires.
Background Checks and Pre-Employment Screening
Can you afford to run the risk? If you fail to perform pre-employment screening you could potentially destroy the business you have worked so hard to build. Background checks are a necessity in today business environments. As a business owner, it is your company’s responsibility to know your employees. An employee with a history of drug, alcohol or violence has the potential to cause irreparable damage to your company’s reputation. An employee who steals or commits fraud can swiftly destroy a business and those associated with it.
Negligent Hiring Consequences for Business Owners in Miami FL
You as the employer may also face liability in the form of monetary compensation based on the doctrine of “negligent hiring”. If a court determines that you, the employer “knew or should have known” negligent facts of an employee’s background especially if those facts should have disqualified the employee from having a job in the first place you could be held culpable. For example an employee with a bad driving history should never be employed as a delivery person in control of a vehicle. It’s your responsibility as the business owner or employer to know the employee.
The experts at Advanced Private Investigator & Security recommend pre-employment screening as a necessary means of research. Do not think of pre-employment screening as an invasion of privacy. Information common in a background check is legally available to the public under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Professional pre-employment screening companies such as Advanced Private Investigator & Security can perform various kinds of background checks. If you are interested in learning more read about the different types of services available browse through our home page.
While most employees are assets to your company, the pre-employment screening process is designed to flag the occasional individual who may have one or more negative past incidents in their history. A background check is much less expensive that having to deal with liability issues, potential financial loss and disruptions within the workplace. Many employers are apt to hurry through the hiring process because they are short staffed and need someone in the position immediately. Advance Private Investigator & Security recommends using caution when you find yourself with a need to hire someone quickly. Hiring without the proper pre-employment screening, could result in serious problems that end up costing you time, money and even the safety of many others.
We recently learned that the ‘Chattanooga Shooter’, Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez who killed five marines at two military facilities in Chattanooga, TN earlier this month, was a conditional employee for ten days at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant near Cleveland but was thankfully let go after failing a background check. During those ten days, he participated in general training classes and was banned from the plant’s security areas. It is easy to imagine how many people could have been killed or injured if a background check was not undertaken.
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