Concern over workplace fraud

Jordan says internal controls are a key to stopping fraud, along with zero tolerance if a person is caught stealing and pre-employment screening.

"Criminal checks and credit checks are really, really important and the lowest cost option people can do to cut down their risk."

8 Smart Practices for Screening Job Candidates.

A recent lawsuit by a job applicant who was a registered sex offender highlights employer's needs to know how to investigate prospective employees without violating the law. Read on to learn how you can ensure that your background checks are both thorough and legal.

Workplace violence can put your company at risk.

Traditionally, the workplace has been thought of as a safe environment, the place where we often spend more time with our co-workers than our own families.

But that perception changed dramatically on a hot August day in 1986, when a postal worker in Edmund, Oklahoma walked into the post office with a mailbag containing the usual assortment of sales circulars and utility bills, right alongside three hand guns and 100 rounds of ammunition.

Employment Screening:  Here it comes, ready or not.

Washington • Mr. Hernandez is scared. A dozen years ago, as a hopeful 18-year-old, he fled his violence-ridden hometown in southern Mexico and came to the United States. A Utah resident for the past decade, he now speaks fluent English, makes a good living in the health care field, pays taxes, volunteers in his community and donates 10 percent of his income to his church.

New law strenghtens background screening for Florida caregivers.

People who care for children, the elderly and disabled in Florida will undergo stricter background screening requirements under a new law that takes effect Aug. 1. .

How much do you really know about your background screening process.

"A Killer's Lie Missed" Two days prior to this Columbus Dispatch headline a supervisor in the maintenance division of Ohio State University was shot and killed, another supervisor wounded. The suspect, a disgruntled ex-employee recently terminated from his job, then took his own life.

Pre-hire drug tests are up -- a key sign of employment growth

First-quarter financial results from New Brighton-based Medtox Scientific and two other lab companies that process pre-employment drug tests suggest there's a promising trickle of hiring in the U.S.

And reports from the trenches (medical clinics that administer the tests) suggest the same.

TransUnion battling attempts to ban employment credit checks

TransUnion, the Chicago-based credit reporting agency controlled by the powerful Pritzker family, is fighting to preserve the use of credit checks in employment screening, even as several states, including Illinois, threaten to outlaw the practice in most circumstances as discriminatory.

It is estimated that a bad hire can cost 75% of an employees annual salary.   Can you really afford to get it wrong?

Six months into his employment with client ‘A' this amazing person disappeared. One day he was there and the next no one could track him down, not at home, not socially and when we took the initiative to call one of his referrals a few weeks later we couldn't track them down either. What was going on?

Background Screening Widely Practiced but still missing from corners of the workforce.

Employment screening has evolved from a simple report to a management tool used for critical decision making. What used to be a labor-intensive task performed with the help of small, regionally dispersed service providers has transformed...

Dangerous Caregivers Missing From Federal Database

Numerous disciplinary records appear to be missing from a federal database. Indiana, for example, didn't report hundreds of disciplinary actions in 2004 and 2005 – including the nearly 100 nurses who were indefinitely barred from caring for patients:

HR director may lose job after hiring 15 ex-cons

The tricky thing about background checks: You actually have to pay attention to the results you get.

That dilemma's at the heart of a controversy surrounding the police force in Washington, D.C., which may lead to the force's Human Resources director losing her job. Here's the skinny:

Temp Firms a Magnet for Unfit Nurses

With scant regulations and some agencies poor background screening procedures, workers can hopscotch from job to job. Sometimes putting seriously ill patients in  the hands of incompetent or impaired caregivers.

Cabbies unhappy about background checks

New security rules at Pensacola Naval Air Station will send some taxi drivers with criminal records looking elsewhere to seek a fare.

Police: McDonald's employee fondled self in front of play area.

Pablo Salgado, of the 2900 block of North Monitor Avenue, was charged with sexual exploitation of a child.

Salgado was reportedly arrested in 2003 for public indecency and was convicted for criminal sexual abuse in 1999.

Background Screening Hot Topic After Arrest in Yale Murder Case

The arrest of a Yale lab technician in the murder case of Yale graduate student Annie Le has provoked questions about the university's background screening policies.

Bill would require background checks on people who work inside other's homes

For Amy Scott and others still reeling from a 2008 assault at a north Bibb County home, It is hard to wait for the accused rapist to go to trial. Smith had been convicted of six felonies since 1986 ranging from robbery to voluntary manslaughter, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections.

More girls accuse Deerfield park attendant of molesting them

Two more girls accused a park attendant who was also a registered sex offender of molesting them after taking them on a float ride in Quiet Waters Park, authorities said

Denver Nurse Accused Of Stealing Meds Lied On Application

A 7NEWS investigation has found a nurse accused of stealing medications from a Denver hospital lied on her nursing license application, and now a state lawmaker says the law should be changed.

Co-worker arrested in Jacksonville Wendy's slaying

A Jacksonville man wanted in Thursday's fatal shooting of a Wendy's co-worker was arrested early this evening at a motel off Interstate 95 north of downtown.

Convicted Felons Approved As Licensed Mortgage Brokers

You trust them with personal information and to help you buy your home. Yet, an exclusive NewsChannel5 investigation found bank robbers and identity thieves working in the mortgage business.

City to require background checks.

DANVILLE Police department concerns about the criminal records of tow truck drivers doing business with the city are prompting a more formalized agreement for tow services used by the city.

Alll elected officials and those serving in appointed positions on our behalf should be required to have background checks conducted and the results made public prior to their candidacy and appointment.

The basketball coach who pleaded guilty to assaulting a 7-year-old girl in Irvington never underwent a criminal background check when he volunteered to coach at the after-school program the child was attending, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said.

Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice accused William Del Biaggio , a former Silicon Valley venture capitalist, with defrauding investors of $65 million. Such crimes could have been prevented with fairly simple background checks.

A SEATTLE (AP) — A privately run immigration lockup in Tacoma hired security guards without required preliminary background checks and then lied about it, according to authorities.

As the grip of terrorism tightens, IT companies resort to strict security measures to secure them. Moreover, techies being noted for their involvement in all terrorism activities make the firms adopt a stern process of complete background check of their employees.

The Tennessee House Majority Leader is requesting the release of names of people who might have been the subject of illegal background checks.

Studies show annual losses from employee theft in the retail sector cost owners between $20 billion and $40 billion annually, a figure that continues to rise each year--and that as many as 30 percent of the businesses that fail in a given year are harmed by losses caused by crime from employees or outsiders.

A 58-time sexual offender was placed in a Florida nursing home in 2002 at the order of a district court judge.  Ivy Edwards, 83, sexually assaulted a 77-year-old female resident suffering from dementia.

With background screening now the norm, employers and employees should be aware of how checks are done and how to protect themselves. Most jobs nowadays, from cashier to a senior executive, require a background check.

Private employers have the right to test their employees for drug use in certain situations. Employers who wish to test employees for drugs or alcohol must devise a policy setting forth the circumstances under which applicants and employees may be tested.