PRE EMPLOYMENT SCREENING SERVICES ARE VIOLATING YOUR RIGHTS!

Back-groundchecks.com, www.back-groundchecks.com, gives the full story on Internet based background investigations . . . . The Internet facilitated an explosive growth in the information gathering and selling industry. However, many pre-employment screening companies are selling inaccurate and outdated information about you to your employer, potentially costing you your job. These agencies have compiled databases of information about you that has not been verified. The worst part is they have obtained this information without your permission.

An all too common scenario: you were charged with D.U.I. which was eventually thrown out of court and erased from your record. A pre-employment agency got a hold of your public arrest record while your case was pending and added the information to their database. Now, when you try to find a new job, you are repeatedly denied because the employer is worried your "drinking problem" will affect your productivity. Because the pre-employment agency used an outdated database, your future employer never got the full story. Unfortunately, this scenario is happening everyday with agencies selling database information through the Internet.

According to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Freedom of Information Act, and the Privacy Act of 1974, you must sign a waiver form before your background information can be sold to your employer. Pre-employment screening agencies are further limited by federal and state privacy acts. To comply with all of these laws, pre-employment agencies:

1. Cannot pull any information on you without your written permission.
2. Must make sure all information on you is current, accurate, and updated regularly to insure your rights are not violated.
3. Can only maintain information on you for seven years unless specified in the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
4. Must adhere to any disputes made by you, the consumer, and reinvestigate and correct any false or misleading information.

Your employer must also adhere to the same laws as the pre-employment agencies. If you are denied employment due to the outcome of a background investigation, the employer must, in writing, either:

1. Give you the reason you were denied.
2. Supply a copy of the background investigation or name of the agency that compiled the information on you.

You have the right to dispute the accuracy or the completeness of any information the agency furnished.

When a background search is being done on you, you need to know if the agency pulls this information from a database they have compiled, or if they pull the information directly from the state and federal agencies themselves. To protect yourself, disclose any problems to your employer which may have occurred in the past. Then, when your employer receives the results of your background search, he or she will already know your side of the story.

Back-groundchecks.com is a background investigation and people locator agency which only pulls information on you directly from the state and federal agencies. We do not use database information. All of our information about you is current, accurate, and verified. This commitment to "the full story" ensures that your employer receives an accurate report of your past and that your rights are not violated in any way.