Rosen said that an employer should remember two factors when considering whether to
screen contingent workers: Show consistency and understand an employer's duty to hire.
The 2015 HireRight Employment Background Screening Benchmarking Report found that nearly 71 percent of organizations don't background
screen contingent workers, even though these individuals often have direct access to facilities, staff, and company information.
The 2015 HireRight Employment Background Screening Benchmarking Report found that nearly 71 percent of organisations don't background
screen contingent workers, even though these individuals often have direct access to facilities, staff and company information.
42 % of those that
screen contingent workers require a background check based on specific screening criteria.
Not exact matches
However, behind the advantages of hiring
contingent workers lie a few challenges, namely the hiring and
screening process.
No
screening of
contingent workers.
As such, it is prudent to require the same
screening for
contingent workers as for regular employees.
Your organization's entire workforce introduces risk, whether these individuals are your employees or not, so it is vitally important to take control of background
screening your extended workforce which includes temporary or
contingent workers, contractors and even vendor representatives who work at your site.
«We're eight years out of the great recession, and now that unemployment rates are down, companies are hiring and the gig and
contingent workforce is becoming more prevalent,» said Mary O'Loughlin, vice president of global customer experience at HireRight, a background
screening provider based in Irvine, Calif. «As freelance job opportunities continue evolving, it will become much more acceptable, and the standard, for employers to
screen gig and
contingent workers.»
The HireRight EWS solution allows you to determine the employment
screening standards your
contingent workers and vendors must meet.
As the popularity of an extended workforce grows, with more organizations hiring
contingent, contract or temporary
workers, many employers also
screen these
workers, who may pose the same risks as regular employees.
In a nutshell, employers should require the same
screening of their
contingent workers as they do of their regular full time
workers and should take full responsibility for ensuring this level of
screening takes place.
In fact, many employers believe that they can bypass the threat of litigation for negligent hiring or tort liability by using
workers who are
screened elsewhere when, in reality, companies should assume that regardless of the party with ultimate responsibility for the acts of
contingent workers, the company that
worker is «representing» bears the most risk.
When an employer fails to ensure that the agency supplying its
contingent workforce is diligently
screening its
workers, the liability for negligent hiring could transfer directly to the organization.
Studies have shown that a surprising majority of companies fail to uphold the same
screening requirements of their
contingent workers as they do of their traditional employees.
Still, studies have shown that a surprising majority of companies fail to uphold the same
screening requirements of their
contingent workers as they do of their traditional employees.
In fact, while temporary, contract, and
contingent workers often have the same access to company assets as traditional employees, 65 % of companies fail to uphold the same
screening requirements of their extended staff.
With a global workforce,
contingent workers on the rise and new federal, state and local government regulations, its vital for your company to have a strong background
screening policy in place.
For example, employers can insist on any contract for any service that any time a
contingent worker comes on premises, that
worker has been the subject of a background
screening.