Background Checks And Safe Hiring: Trends, Legal Developments, And Best Practices

Firms cannot afford to be sidetracked by employee problems such as workplace violence, theft, false resumes, embezzlement, harassment, or trumped-up injury claims as employers can be sued for negligent hiring if they hire someone they should have known, through the exercise of due diligence, was dangerous, unfit, dishonest, or unqualified.

This session will review the top ten trends and best practices for when it comes to background checks and safe hiring, including the use of social networking sites, the EEOC approach to the use of criminal records and credit reports, international background screening, resume fraud, dealing with temporary workers, privacy, off-shoring of personal data, and tools to protect against workplace violence.

Learning Objectives:

By attending this training session, you and/or your team will learn legally-complaint best practices a firm can utilize to avoid a bad hire, yet keep itself productive and out of court. Specifically, we'll cover:

• The current trends, best practices, and legal developments affecting due diligence and hiring
• Cutting-edge issues such as the new EEOC focus on criminal records and credit reports
• Guidance for using social networking sites
• Tips for international background screening
• Steps for dealing with resume fraud
• Best practices for handling temporary workers, privacy, and off-shoring of personal data
• Tools to protect against workplace violence

About Your Presenter:

Lester S. Rosen is an attorney at law and CEO of Employment Screening Resources, an accredited, national background screening company under the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS) accreditation program, a professional trade organization for the screening industry.

He is a consultant, writer, and frequent presenter on pre-employment screening and safe hiring issues. He also has qualified as an expert witness on issues surrounding safe hiring and due diligence. His speaking appearances have included numerous national and statewide conferences.

He also is the author of "The Safe Hiring Manual: The Complete Guide to Employment Screening Background Checks for Employers, Recruiters, and Jobseekers" and "The Safe Hiring Audit."

HRCI Credits

This program has been approved for 1.5 re-certification credit hours for HRCI's PHR and SPHR designations through the HR Certification Institute. For more information about certification or re-certification, please visit the HR Certification Institute website at www.hrci.org. The use of this seal is not an endorsement by HRCI of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met HRCIs criteria to be pre-approved for re-certification credit.

SHRM Professional Development Credits

This program is valid for 1.5 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP designations. For more information about certification or re-certification, please visit www.shrmcertification.org.

Hiring, Background Check