DO YOU REALLY KNOW WHO YOU ARE HIRING?
As a successful businessperson, you are undoubtedly familiar with the many types of insurance that you need to police officerprotect your business. However, there may be one type of protection that you are not as familiar with, so I would like to take a few minutes of your time to introduce you to an important aspect of the hiring process that is often overlooked.
Pre-employment background screenings of potential employees, just like a conventional insurance policy, could help your company avoid possible multi-million dollar losses. How could that be possible you might ask? The answer is by avoiding potential lawsuits under the Negligent Hiring Liability.
In effect, the courts have repeatedly held employers responsible for the criminal acts of their employees both on the job and in some cases, off the job! While this may seem unfair, the courts have found employer’s liable for what they do know and what they should have known about their employees. Employees are a company’s largest asset and with every hire comes potential risk. Employers have an obligation to conduct due diligence and take reasonable steps to protect their customers and other employees, after all we could not operate without them!
