Arguments Against Background Check

In recent years as Information Technology continues to boom, background checks has been the norm in employment processes; employers are also able to monitor the working performance and many other aspects of workplace activities of their employees'. While there’re many claims by numerous institutions to be a gainful process (in other word increase productivity), there’re conflicting social ethics in association as most employees may not welcome such monitoring. Employees’ claims this type of surveillance is an infringement of their civil liberties and does violates of their privacy rights however; currently many types of electronic monitoring are allowed under the “The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 if employee consent has been

The first and foremost reason is that employers run background checks in other to protect their institutions from liability. One way to proof the effectiveness of background check is for instance if an employer recruits an individual in anticipation to fill in job opening, what is the possibility for knowing the right person is chosen and is qualified for the position looking to fill in? Background checks provide employers a snapshot of an individual worker they’re in the process of hiring. First they need to verify if the job seeker can fill in for the position available. Secondly may consider if the prospective employee’s presence at the workplace provides safety for the other workers and the entire organization as a whole (Mondaq

Running criminal background checks are a snapshot of prospective employee past at some point in their lives; these does not reflect what will transpire in the future. With that being said, employer should at all cost expand their background check policies to involve recurrent screenings. Reasonably, employers should require from each employee to submit to a check within every three to five years, at the same time different employees will be randomly subjected to every six months to update their background check information, in this way an organization stand the chance to protect itself at the same time providing a guard against unexpected liability (Camardella