Screen your background screener.

• Date: 01 December 2022

Not all background-screening providers are created equal. An employer must confirm their methods and information sources to avoid potentially expensive legal liability if a shoddy background check leads to trouble in the workplace.

That's the urgent message from Deb Keller, president and chief compliance officer at Total Insight Screening. Screeningrelated incidents have emerged as one of the most frequent and costly areas of litigation against employers, Keller said in a Business Management Daily webinar in November.

Legal exposure stems from problems ranging from the use of insufficient applicant authorization forms to deadly violence in the workplace by a perpetrator whose criminal record was never flagged in a substandard background check.

It's not only the backgroundscreening...