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The Troubling Consequences of Hiring Sex Offenders

Sex offenders always present a difficult situation.   There are few good sides to hiring a sex offender.   Most of the other staff will dislike him intensely with some considering more than just verbal abuse.  This is especially the case if the sex offender has had criminal convictions for assaulting a child or someone underage.   In short, sex  offenders are often very toxic to the workplace.

Recently, a client called.  He is an attorney and directs many of his clients toward us for employment screening.  Some of his clients, however, do not avail themselves of our services.  One such client hired a man without running the requisite background checks.  Shortly after he went to work, the client a fashionable resort hotel, started to get complaints about the new employee.  The client was making not so subtle advances on both the female staff and general staff.  Most cited him for his general creepiness.  Human Resources, now after the fact, Googled the guy and found he was indeed a registered sex offender.  As to what he did to make the registry, ZI will leave to your imaginations.  So now, the hotel is stuck with him until enough complaints are registered so that they can let him go.

Word of advice to all companies.  Have an employment screening program in place.  Run your background checks before hiring anyone.   That way you will know what you are getting yourself into.

And then there are these two convicted sex offenders.  Two numbskulls who were arrested in Anaheim, yesterday, for the rape and murder of four women.  I honestly don’t know yet if these two were working or not.  But background checks are a way to keep such trash from the workplace.  One can only imagine them acting out on the job.   The horror if it, and all the liability factors.   To say nothing of what it does for employee morale.

According  to the article in the Los Angeles Times…”Murder and rape charges were filed Monday against two registered sex offenders accused of killing four women who vanished from the streets of Orange County.”

Do yourself a favor.  Check them out before you hire.

By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.

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