Criminal Background Check Errors Cost Workers and Businesses
About 93 percent of employers conduct criminal background checks on some applicants, but not all of them are using reputable agencies to do it, according to a recent report from the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC).
The report, Broken Records: How Errors by Criminal Background Checking Companies Harm Workers and Businesses, shows that there has been a rapid increase in criminal background checks for job applicants by employers since Sept. 11, 2001, but many of those reports are filled with erroneous information.