“Real Facts, Real Situations, Real Reasons Companies Use National Profiles”

 

WORKPLACE VIOLENCE

There are 6 million threats of violence and 2 million workplace assaults each year. 13 people die due to workplace violence every week. This figure doesn’t differentiate between white collar and blue-collar environments.  Your best protection is to work under the assumption that past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior.

FALSIFIED EMPLOYMENT APPLICATIONS & RESUMES

Applicants tend to stretch the truth. Statistics reveal that near 40% of applications are falsified.

EMPLOYEE THEFT

33% of employees admit to stealing a product or money from jobs in the last three years. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates dishonesty by employees, costs 2%-3% of gross sales. It is estimated that 30% of business failures are directly related to employee theft.

EMPLOYEE TURNOVER

The cost of hiring, training, and then terminating one employee can be very expensive. According to William M. Mercer, Inc., turnover costs a minimum of $10,000; 20% of respondents indicated turnover costs exceed $20,000.

NEGLIGENT HIRING LIABILITY

In 1999, Trusted Health was ordered to pay $26.5 million dollars to the family of a murdered patient. Courts throughout the U.S. declared “prior to the time the employee is actually hired, the employer should have known of the employee’s unfitness” and are liable if they did not perform an adequate background investigation.

Negligent hiring litigation is a growing problem. Employers lose 72% of all negligent hiring suits and the average jury plaintiff award in employment law cases continues to be in excess of $1,000,000. Damages are awarded against employers because of the employer's negligence and failure to perform a reasonable search into the employee's background prior to hiring.

 

LAWSUITS

A car rental company recently paid $750,000 to an employee who was raped by a fellow employee.  A background check was not preformed and the employee did have a criminal history.

A guard service was found guilty for inadequately checking a guard's references when the guard helped steal from their client. The charge - negligent hiring as they failed to investigate and the employee had a criminal record. The damages paid were over $300,000.

An employee who had previously been convicted of passing bad checks forged signatures on sales contracts. The court judged his employer negligent and awarded $175,000 to the client.

After driving for a telephone company for only a week, an employee was involved in a traffic accident. The jury learned that the company never saw the employee's driver's record which had five traffic tickets within 18 months. They awarded the injured party $550,000.

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