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Applicant background investigation

The employer has an obligation to be prudent and reasonable in the selection of an employee. The company has no information about the applicant until he applies, and then it has only what the applicant provides.The chief reason for a background investigation is to establish that the applicant has truthfully related all relevant information.

Prospective employers have the option of rejecting applicants for employment at their own discretion except for reasons dealing with ethnic or racial origins,religious preferences, age or sex, or further requirements of the National Labor Relations Act.

Similar state laws say that there shall be no discrimination based on workers’ rights to collective bargaining. The employer is otherwise unregulated with respect to reasons for rejecting employment applications. Many kinds of personal behavior and activities might be considered unsuitable for a prospective employee.

To make a decision about potential employment on the basis of such information alone would be foolish. No testing will confirm statements about past history or any other information unless the employer goes beyond the applicant’s own statements. All kinds of relationships arise with employment that may endanger the employer’s assets. An applicant’s history with respect to unsafe practices and prior injuries is important. And when specific education is required for a position or is a basis upon which wage rate is determined, education should be verified.

Employers with health insurance programs beyond Worker’s Compensation coverage are in even greater jeopardy from malingerers who may have already demonstrated by past record taking maximum advantage of such programs. Furthermore, they will know whether the applicant has a history of drug or alcohol abuse.Hiring people with active histories of alcohol and drug addiction can be the start of a broad and continuing problem.

The applicability of employment should be considered, contains business references and social references which can be asked about the applicant’s character and reputation.It would be a injure to a person convicted of stealing who served a imprisonment, to assign him to a position involving responsibility for access to cash, not necessarily because the employee might steal again, but because if a loss should occur after his hiring, he would be a natural suspect.

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