Why screen employees?

Pre employment background checks cost too much? Absolutly not! Compelling reasons why employers need to know as much about an employee candidate as possible.

Embezzlement alone costs companies $4 billion a year.
(U.S. Chamber of Commerce)
34% of all employment verifications performed reveal exaggeration or fraudulent information.
11% of all educational verifications performed contain falsifications.
42% of all driving records pulled contain infractions.
37.6% of surveyed college students admit to a history of criminal offenses
According to surveys of Human Resource Executives, more than half the resumes they receive contain exaggerated or fraudulent information and/or significant omissions.
34% of resumes and 73% of job applications contain falsified or embellished information
6.5 million adults were on probation, in jail or on parole at year end 2000
(Bureau of Justice statistics)
3.1% of all U.S. adult residents on probation, in jail or on parole at year end 2000
(Bureau of Justice statistics)
The Justice Department report claims that Nearly 2 million people are victims of workplace violence each year
Over 30% of all business failures are the result of negligent hiring.
(U.S. Chamber of Commerce)
13 people die through workplace violence each week.
(HR News)
As much as 30% of all offenders are "multi-State" offenders; that is, they have both Federal and state records or arrests in more than one state.
(Federal Bureau of Investigations)
Most persons arrested for criminal offenses have prior arrest records, and many have arrest records in more than one state.
(Federal Bureau of Investigations)
33% of State prisoners and 22% of Federal prisoners said they had committed their current offense while under the influence of drugs.
(Business Life)
20% of the workplace population is using alcohol or other drugs at the worksite.
(Business Life)
73% of all drug users are employed
(Institute for a drug-free workplace: www.drugfreeworkplace.org)
7.4 million employees abused drugs last month
(Institute for a drug-free workplace: www.drugfreeworkplace.org)
52% of all employees who test "positive" for drugs are daily users
(Institute for a drug-free workplace: www.drugfreeworkplace.org)
35% of workers have seen or heard of on-the-job drug use by co-workers
(Institute for a drug-free workplace: www.drugfreeworkplace.org)
Alcohol misuse in the U.S. to be $117 billion including $66 billion in lost productivity.
(DOT 1997)

Employment Screening News

Company owner, contractor plead guilty to fraud, bid rigging in Manville (Asbury Park Press)
A contractor for the cleanup of the Federal Creosote Superfund site in the borough pleaded guilty Wednesday to bid rigging, fraud and tax charges. JMJ Environmental Inc., its owner John Drimak Jr., and Norman Stoerr, a former employee of a prime contractor that provided environmental remediation services at Federal Creosote and the Diamond Alkali Superfund site in Newark, pleaded guilty in U.S. ...
New York sues UBS, alleges auction-rate fraud (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
New York State sued UBS AG on Thursday, accusing the Swiss bank of committing a "multi-billion dollar fraud" by steering broker clients into auction-rate securities that became impossible to sell once the credit market tightened.
NY state sues UBS for fraud in auction-rate securities (AFP via Yahoo! News)
New York state officials Thursday filed civil fraud charges against UBS, accusing the Swiss banking giant of marketing certain kinds of adjustable bonds as "safe" investments.
New York state sues UBS for fraud (Adelaide Now)
NEW YORK state officials today filed civil fraud charges against UBS, accusing the Swiss banking giant of marketing certain kinds of adjustable bonds as "safe" investments.
Woman to plead guilty in check fraud (El Paso Times)
EL PASO -- Olivia Enriquez, a former employee of Don Henderson Insurance, was scheduled to plead guilty in federal court on Wednesday to one count of fraud by wire, radio or television.
Pharmed owners face fraud charge (Miami Herald)
Carlos and Jorge de Céspedes, who started with nothing and built up one of the largest Hispanic-owned businesses in the country, were charged Tuesday with healthcare-related wire fraud and income tax evasion.
Police Looking To Return Merchandise To Fraud Vitcims (2News Salt Lake City)
Authorities want to locate victims of a fraud scam, in which thousands of dollars worth of merchandise was taken without compensation, officials said.
Pharmed founders charged with fraud (Miami Herald)
Carlos and Jorge de Céspedes, founders of Pharmed, once one of the largest Hispanic owned businesses in the country, were charged Tuesday in federal court with healthcare-related wire fraud and income tax evasion.
Second bank claims fraud by Boesen (The Des Moines Register)
A South Dakota-based bank alleges that the late Des Moines businessman Edward Boesen, or someone on his behalf, participated in fraud and forgery when he obtained a $3.5 million loan last May using documents that turned out to be false.
New York State sues UBS, alleges auction-rate fraud (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a civil lawsuit on Thursday against UBS AG , accusing the Swiss bank of deceptively steering customers into auction-rate securities that this year became impossible to sell amid the credit crunch.

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