Prologue

Private and public organization and higher education enterprise is required to established policies and procedures delineating standards for logical and physical access to facility and infrastructure, relative to key demographic factors such as conducting criminal background checks, as permitted by law, as part of pre-employment screening practices for current and future employees.

Scenario

• Most new employees are very apprehensive about screening and background checks (BC) prior to issuing official letter of appointment. BC is established by law and human resources unit (HR) has been added to your department.
• What standard will you include in the current policy and procedures to alleviate new employees’ apprehension relative to background checks?

Answer preview

Screening and Background Checks Standards

Public and private organizations are required to conduct screening and background checks (BC) on employees as permitted by the law before issuing an employment contract. Screening and background checks are the processes of uncovering information regarding employees to identify if there are any health and safety risks that they might pose. The human resource management is usually…