Negligent Hiring
Negligent Hiring
For example, did you know that an employer can be held liable for the negligent hiring or retention of an employee?
What is Negligent Hiring?
Employers have an obligation to protect their employees and third parties from the "foreseeable" acts of an employee, and employers can be held liable for facts that are known or "should have been known" regarding an employee's character or job-related experience.
Negligent hiring occurs when a company fails to contact their employee's former employers, check references and does not conduct a criminal background check prior to hiring the employee. According to a recent study performed by a leading Human Resources publication, more than 16,000 threats are made in the workplace every workday and 13 people die because of workplace violence each week.
Negligent hiring is based on the principal that employers have an obligation to protect their employees and clients from injury caused by their employees. Liability for negligent hiring can be imposed on an employer, if the employer is aware, has reason to believe the employee is unfit, or fails to use "reasonable care" to verify the employees unfitness for duty, prior to hiring the employee, and an individual sustains injury as a result of the employer's negligence.
The employer is presumed not to have been negligent for hiring an employee if, prior to hiring the employee, the employer conducted or retained a qualified employment background screening company, to perform a background check on the prospective employee and the background check did not reveal any information that reasonably demonstrated the unsuitability of the prospective employee for the specific work to be performed or for employment in general. It is important that employers perform their due diligence by conducting background checks on every employee hired, regardless of the size their workforce. No employer is immune from a lawsuit resulting form negligent hiring practices.
George Ramos, CEO
Employers Choice Online
My thanks to George Ramos, CEO of Employers Choice Online for writing the above article and helping all of us to understand our responsibilities as employers. EmployersChoiceOnline.com provides Employment Background Screening Services to employers of every size and industry throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and abroad. If you are considering hiring someone, I urge you to contact George at Employers Choice Online or call toll free at (800) 424-7011. A small investment in performing a background check can protect your company from risk as well as ensure the safety of your employees.
Negligent Hiring - To learn more about this author, visit Mark Deo's Website.
Like this article? Share it with your friends
Nearly every small business operator dreams of expanding his or her business. This usually entails getting more business, becoming a leader in your market and ultimately hiring more people. Yet in today’s litigious business environment, hiring more team members means exposing yourself to greater risk. Every time we turn around there is another law passed that requires employers to perform greater and greater due diligence with regard to human resource issues.
For example, did you know that an employer can be held liable for the negligent hiring or retention of an employee?
What is Negligent Hiring?
Employers have an obligation to protect their employees and third parties from the "foreseeable" acts of an employee, and employers can be held liable for facts that are known or "should have been known" regarding an employee's character or job-related experience.
Negligent hiring occurs when a company fails to contact their employee's former employers, check references and does not conduct a criminal background check prior to hiring the employee. According to a recent study performed by a leading Human Resources publication, more than 16,000 threats are made in the workplace every workday and 13 people die because of workplace violence each week.
Negligent hiring is based on the principal that employers have an obligation to protect their employees and clients from injury caused by their employees. Liability for negligent hiring can be imposed on an employer, if the employer is aware, has reason to believe the employee is unfit, or fails to use "reasonable care" to verify the employees unfitness for duty, prior to hiring the employee, and an individual sustains injury as a result of the employer's negligence.
The employer is presumed not to have been negligent for hiring an employee if, prior to hiring the employee, the employer conducted or retained a qualified employment background screening company, to perform a background check on the prospective employee and the background check did not reveal any information that reasonably demonstrated the unsuitability of the prospective employee for the specific work to be performed or for employment in general. It is important that employers perform their due diligence by conducting background checks on every employee hired, regardless of the size their workforce. No employer is immune from a lawsuit resulting form negligent hiring practices.
George Ramos, CEO
Employers Choice Online
My thanks to George Ramos, CEO of Employers Choice Online for writing the above article and helping all of us to understand our responsibilities as employers. EmployersChoiceOnline.com provides Employment Background Screening Services to employers of every size and industry throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and abroad. If you are considering hiring someone, I urge you to contact George at Employers Choice Online or call toll free at (800) 424-7011. A small investment in performing a background check can protect your company from risk as well as ensure the safety of your employees.
Negligent Hiring - To learn more about this author, visit Mark Deo's Website.
Like this article? Share it with your friends
 | |
 |
No article feedback found. |
| |
Leave Your Feedback |
 | |
| |||
Dave KurlanDave Kurlan is the founder and CEO of Objective Management Group, Inc., the industry leader in sales assessments and sales force evaluations, and the CEO of David Kurlan & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in sales force development. Dave has been a top rated speaker at Inc. Magazine's Conference on Growing the Company, the Sales & Marketing Management Conference and the Gazelles Sales & Marketing Summit. He has been featured on radio and TV, including World Business Review with General Norman Schwarzkopf, in Inc. Magazine, Selling Power Magazine, Sales & Marketing Management Magazine and Incentive Magazine. He is the author of Mindless Selling and Baseline Selling – How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know about the Game of Baseball. He created and wrote STAR, a proprietary recruiting process for hiring great salespeople, and he writes Understanding the Sales Force, a popular business Blog and is a contributing author to The Death of 20th Century Selling and 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, Volume 2. - Visit Dave Kurlan's Website |
|||
|
To learn more about the Evan Elite Author Program please contact us. | |||
 | |
|  |
Subscribe to Mark's articles
 | |
|
|  |
 |
|
|
 | |||||||
|
 | ||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
|
| ||
 |
| Have you written articles that would be of value to entrepreneurs? Become an expert on our site by publishing them! Expose yourself to a wide audience, drive more traffic to your website and get more sales! Click Here for details. |
|
|
 |
| Modeling the Masters: Learn the true secrets behind Walt Disney's business success factors & grow your company! Video produced by Phanta Media |
|
|
 |
"Learn straight from Evan how you can Make a Full Time Income (And More) from a Website"
Click Here To Learn More |
|
|
|
|
Get advice & tips from famous business owners, new articles by entrepreneur experts, my latest website updates, & special sneak peaks at what's to come!
|
|
|
 Manners, Positivity, Heroics Internet Marketing Secrets Maslow For Entrepreneurs Leadership 2.0 Referral Networking Solution |
|
 | ||
 |
The Top 10 Guy Kawasaki Posts
Best Posts for Entrepreneurs | |
 |
Fortune Hunters
CBC Entrepreneur TV | |
| ||
 | ||||
| ||||
|
| ||||
| ||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Email us your ideas on how to make our website more valuable! Thank you Sharon from Toronto Salsa Lessons / Classes for your suggestions to make the newsletter look like the website and profile younger entrepreneurs like Jennifer Lopez and Sean Combs!
|
|
|
| ||||||||||
|
| ||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||