Limitations on Background Investigations and Reference Checks
{"Image DocumentName": "Limitations on Background Investigations and Reference Checks", "Image ImageDescription": "Human Resources Management 12e Gary Dessler. Limitations on Background Investigations and Reference Checks. Background Investigations and Reference Checks. Supervisor Reluctance. Employer Guidelines. Legal Issues: Privacy. Legal Issues: Defamation. In practice (as most people instinctively know), giving someone a bad reference can drag you into a legal mess. A communication is defamatory if it is false and tends to harm the reputation of another by lowering the person in the estimation of the community or by deterring other persons from associating or dealing with him or her. Employees can sue employers for disclosing true but embarrassing private facts about the employee. In practice, many firms have a policy of not providing any information about former employees except for their dates of employment, last salary, and position titles. To avoid potential invasion of privacy issues, employers should obtain the applicant\u2019s written permission before checking into the applicant\u2019s background information, even if that information is publicly available (e.g., published on social networking sites). Copyright \u00a9 2011 Pearson Education. Copyright \u00a9 2011 Pearson Education.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}