A bad hire results in lost time and expenses due to the need to recruit and train another new hire, as well as a negative impact on employee morale and a decrease in overall team and company productivity. But the good news is that there is a way to help avoid this fate: by running a thorough background check. Background checks simply make good business sense.
They are critical for making a more well-informed hire, allowing your company to focus on growing the business, not on dealing with potential problems. And these potential problems can range from minor to rather severe. Here are 4 risks you take if you fail to run a background check:.
Trusting your employees is key. You have to trust them to do their jobs, to treat customers and partners with respect, and to represent your brand appropriately. Verifying credentials is particularly important when you consider a recent report from CareerBuilder.
You might remember the case of former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, who landed in the headlines for allegedly misrepresenting his college degrees. Hiring someone with false credentials can directly affect your existing employees, too. Extra time spent managing a bad hire is less time spent on helping the business grow. Department of Justice, b.
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Nine states and Washington, D. There are few barriers to gun ownership under current federal law. As long as a person is at least 21 years old and is not prohibited from possessing a gun because of one of the nine enumerated reasons listed in the federal code, they can purchase a handgun from a licensed gun dealer.
The age threshold drops to 18 to purchase a rifle or shotgun, including semi-automatic assault rifles. Again, these concerns predate the coronavirus pandemic. However, the current influx of first-time gun buyers raises new concerns about the thousands of new gun owners bringing deadly weapons into their homes without the proper supports to ensure that they are able to do so safely. Federal law does not impose any minimal safety training requirements before an individual can buy a gun.
The delivery of safety instruction has been entirely delegated to the gun industry, and availing oneself of the myriad private gun safety educational classes and hands-on training programs—including the new online courses and videos being offered during the pandemic—is entirely voluntary.
Only a handful of states have enacted laws designed to ensure a minimum level of competency with a firearm before an individual is permitted to buy one. California and Washington state, for example, require prospective gun purchasers to provide documentation that they have completed a firearm safety training program within five years.
One topic often covered in voluntary gun safety courses is the need to store guns securely to prevent people from gaining unauthorized access. Storing firearms locked, unloaded, and separate from their ammunition is crucial to preventing guns from falling into the wrong hands, particularly those of children, household members experiencing suicidal ideation, or thieves.
But under federal law and the laws of most states, taking this advice is entirely voluntary. Similarly, there are no requirements for the proper storage of ammunition, even when it is purchased in bulk.
The dangers of improperly stored ammunition are not theoretical, with numerous reports of ammunition stockpiles igniting and exploding, resulting in injury and death. Again, the problem of insufficient requirements for the proper storage of firearms predates the pandemic.
A study found that roughly half of all gun owners store at least one of their guns without any lock or secure storage device, 33 and a national survey of gun owners conducted in found that an estimated 4. While federal law does require licensed gun dealers to offer gun locks at the point of sale for every purchase, it places no onus on the gun owner to actually use them.
A growing number of states have acted to strengthen gun laws to address many of these weaknesses in the background check system and regulations surrounding gun ownership. In addition to a piecemeal approach to these issues, a few states have enacted a comprehensive system of firearm licensing to ensure that gun buyers are both legally eligible to possess guns and properly educated and trained on their safe use and storage. According to an analysis by the Giffords Law Center, eight states have enacted laws requiring that individuals obtain a license prior to purchasing firearms, and another three states require people to have a valid license or permit to possess firearms.
In addition to addressing many of the dangerous gaps in the law discussed above, a growing body of research demonstrates that gun licensing laws are effective at reducing gun violence. A study from researchers at John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health concluded that licensing laws can reduce the diversion of firearms into the illegal gun market.
While there is a considerable amount of research on the positive impacts of licensing laws to reduce gun violence, there remain significant gaps in examining how these laws are implemented. Given the role of law enforcement in the procedural aspects of licensing, it is crucial that issues of bias be addressed to mitigate the possibility that these laws would disproportionately affect already overpoliced communities, particularly communities of color.
The number of states currently participating is The National Rifle Association has long-pushed for those types of restoration requirements, Brown said. And the father of a teenager who killed himself and four classmates at a Washington state high school in was able to purchase several guns, including the one his son used, because the Tulalip Tribal Court had not shared his domestic violence protection order with Marysville, Washington, authorities, who would have sent it to the background check system.
Brown said many agencies, hospitals and treatment providers are under the mistaken impression that federal medical privacy laws prevent them from sharing information with the system. Support Provided By: Learn more. Wednesday, Nov
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