Time for Employers to Review Background Screening Policies

With so much emphasis on the criminal background check industry and the use of criminal history checks in the employment screening process, now is the time for employers to review their pre-employment background screening policies. The EEOC is not going away and filed two big law suits against big companies just recently because of how they used criminal background checks in the hiring process. Even though BMW, one of the larger companies hit with an EEOC law suit did not purposefully discriminate against certain people, its criminal history checks lead to an aggregate disproportionate amount of minorities being negatively affected by them. The EEOC is trying to stop wide spread criminal history sweeps that exclude many candidates that otherwise would be qualified for the job. Often time’s criminal records contain non violent offenses, no jail time, or even just arrest records that never lead to a conviction. The EEOC is making it clear that employers need to take a closer look at their employment screening policies particularly the use of criminal records in the hiring process. They are encouraging employers to take a deeper look at applicants without automatic rejections from the criminal history background check result. To learn more about this subject read recent CriminalBackgroundRecords.com press release: http://www.criminalbackgroundrecords.com/news/2013-8-8-Employers-Review-Background-Screening-Policies.html