Criminal Background Check - Texas

mlbarker

I'm in a heavy manufacturing industry with 90% males. We don't run criminal background checks on applicants and support Project RIO depending on offense.

By signing our application people authorize us to investigate anything relevant to their qualifications.

My questions: are we being discriminatory running it on some people and not all? Are we violating some privacy act?

Thanks!

jitrbug

The first question you need to ask
is why are you running the checks.
If you are running them on specific jobs for specific reasons, then you are probably ok.
We just started running them post offer
on all new hires this year but we have several
different levels that we run dependent on the
job.

allsteaks

Our industry requires background checks on everyone so there is no picking/choosing. But I agree with jitr, unless it is job specific I would either not do any or run them on everyone.

NeedCoffee

I agree with jitrbug - you need to run them on everyone or no one, otherwise you risk pre-employment discrimination.

Its definitely OK to run different levels of background check depending on the job/level in the company.