What are the liability issues of NOT doing background checks?
Because of increasing incidents of workplace violence, more and more governing bodies and courts in the United States have created laws or made rulings regarding employers’ responsibility to make sure they know who they are hiring before they put clients and employees at risk. By conducting a reasonable background check, employers should have the information needed to make better hiring decisions. By not conducting a check, the employer may be subject to lawsuits and crippling penalties and court awards if an unchecked employee commits a crime against a client or fellow employee. The reasoning is that the crime would not likely have been committed if the employer had not put the employee in the position to commit the crime.
