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.