Showing posts with label Security Vetting in Nigeria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Security Vetting in Nigeria. Show all posts

Friday 23 December 2016

Background Check: Antidote To Negligent Hiring, Vicarious Liability

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Holistic Security Background Checks is a global best practice and first line of defence against latent risks of negligent hiring and vicarious liability which employers of labour increasingly face in our today’s world. Whether they bargained for it or not, the very moment an employee is hired, an employer inherits an invincible burden – a reasonable duty of care for the security and safety of others. The crux of negligent hiring lawsuit is that a hiring decision (lack of due diligence or background check) by an employer resulted or contributed to the incident. A growing number of organizations fall prey to negligent hiring and vicarious liability lawsuits. To give us an idea, ‘’about 75% of employers reportedly lose negligent hiring cases with settlement claims averaging $1 million’’.  A jury in an Arkansas Federal Court in the United States awarded $7 million in damages to the family of an Arkansas truck driver killed in a 2008 accident in a wrongful death lawsuit brought against a timber company and its truck driver who caused the accident.

Tuesday 26 July 2016

Staggering Fake Certificates, Fraud In Nigeria Demands Stringent Background Checks

Preamble: Broadly speaking, Nigerians and employers of labour idolize paper qualifications, certifications and titles at the expense of competence. It is common to see individuals indiscriminately flaunt their academic or social attainments even when such are uncalled-for.