November 16, 2009

Minimizing the Risks of Negligent Hiring, Pre- and Post-Hire

There has been no shortage of public cases in recent years in which employing organizations have neglected to check the backgrounds of employees prior to hire and have suffered damaging consequences because of it. People get hurt, lawsuits are filed and companies get hit hard with bad press. If you're reading this article, chances are, you are familiar with the benefits of pre-employment screening. But what is being done to learn of crimes committed by current employees since the time the pre-employment check was conducted - potential st...


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October 19, 2009

Negligent Hiring - The Million Dollar Mistake

One million dollars… What is it besides a lot of money for the average person? From 1992 to 2001, the average cost to settle a negligent hiring lawsuit was roughly one million dollars. And that is conservative. The highest award in the United States for a negligent hiring case was $26.5 million, a substantially higher number. So, what is negligent hiring and what can you do to protect your organization from it? Negligent hiring is defined as failure to use due care or action given the risk provided by the position being given. Though e...


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October 12, 2009

Reassessing the Background Screening Program

So... it's been a couple years since you set up the policies and guidelines of your employment screening program. Things are working well, you think, and then one day you find out that your office in Rochester has been skipping the criminal check for well over a year. You uncovered this fact after getting a call to investigate an individual with, to your surprise, a hat trick of violent incidents on their rap-sheet. Or in a modified scenario, the Rochester office was doing criminal checks, but this individual committed the crimes in a re...


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