Checklist: Screening and Background Checking; This checklist is designed to help you avoid mistakes in hiring employees.
This checklist is designed to help you avoid mistakes in hiring employees. The procedures outlined can help you reduce the chance that hiring decisions could lead to allegations of mismanagement, unwanted negative publicity, and potentially unlimited liability.
Sample Background Screening Policy
Explanation.
The following clauses address the issue of HIV and AIDS testing in the workplace and can be easily added to your company AIDS policy.
The importance of applicant background checks and employment verification was made clear by a survey that revealed 8.3 percent of all job applicants have criminal records.
Use of psychological tests by employers has the clear potential to implicate privacy rights.
Voice stress analyzers.— A voice stress analyzer is prohibited for use in preemployment screenings.
It is an unlawful employment practice for any employer to (Sec. 44-1009, as amended by S. 22, L. 1999, effective upon publication in the statute book):
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or the state of Washington, its political subdivisions, or municipal corporations to require, directly o