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I didn't used to think like this as an employer. I really thought that I could do without these intrusive types of screening techniques. Privacy, so I told myself. Until I hired some bad apples that, had I done these above things, would have saved me thousands of dollars, and more importantly months of lost time. So now, I check credit, public records--not necessarily that I care about what happened to you five years ago, but I have found out that if a potential applicant is going through some rough time right now or recently, there is a huge correlation between that and performance, or lack there of at work.
In defense and aerospace they avoid hiring people with bad credit or huge debts because they're more of a risk to sell classified information to repay debts. I think it's good that they check.
Unless the prospective employee has signed a waiver allowing management to access their banking information and medical records it is illegal to do so.
One time at the end of the work day I was in the elevator with the ceo of the company. His weekly salary was well into five digits. He wished me a good evening and I replied that I was on my way to my second job so I wasn't so sure how good of an evening it was going to be. You should have seen his face. He lost all color and gave me the oddest look. I guess from his point of view people with second jobs were a potential security risk. He could have remedied that by paying some of us a little better but no, let's not go overboard.
Unless the prospective employee has signed a waiver allowing management to access their banking information and medical records it is illegal to do so.
Nothing is private and sorry to say: you are naive to think so. Sad, but true.
I found that had derogatory information on my report that cost me a job offer. I keep a close eye on my credit report now-just because it is important to do anyway.
Nothing is private and sorry to say: you are naive to think so. Sad, but true.
Medical records are private and being part of the health industry, we spent lots of money in compliance to ensure they stay private. Why do we do this? Because HIPPA laws have teeth! Penalties are serious and can include criminal charges.
If it's not private it's because in most cases the consumer gives up his health information himself (i.e. facebook, etc).
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