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Advantages of Employment Screening & Background Checks for SMEs.
Are Background Checks Beneficial for Small to Medium-Sized Businesses? For SMEs, background check solutions are becoming increasingly necessary. Casual self-employment and gig-work skyrocketed during the pandemic and the subsequent lockdown, with ad hoc staff being needed more than ever. Hiring in 2021 has often meant making hiring decisions without physically meeting candidates. With more remote working than Read more…
Using Screening as an Anti-Corruption Tool
In a working world where we are more remote from our colleagues than ever, monitoring unethical behaviours in the workplace is becoming a mammoth task for HR. According to the most recent Fraudscape report from Cifas, ‘despite lower levels of recruitment, there were notable filings of dishonest actions and disclosing personal information to third parties.’ Although we’ve Read more…
5 Key Considerations for HR When Building an SMCR Compliance Plan
HR Managers should now be fully aware of the Senior Managers & Certification Regime (“SMCR”) that has replaced the Approved Persons regime for most financial sector firms regulated by the FCA/PRA. This regulation will make a significant impact on the UK financial services industry and indeed any organisation now offering finance under FCA regulation. The Read more…
HR Guide To The SMCR (Senior Managers & Certification Regime) & Pre-employment Screening
From 09 December 2019, the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) will apply to ALL firms who are authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act (FSMA). It’s been a long time coming! In July 2019, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its final rules on extending the SMCR to all firms regulated by the FCA. With Read more…
Subject Access Requests (SARS) And Employment References
Under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) individuals are entitled to a copy of the personal data which an organisation holds about them. Anyone has the right to make a subject access request (SAR), which is a written request to a company or organisation asking for access to the personal information it holds on them. Read more…
Top 10 Things To Consider When Background Screening Globally
Pre-employment screening is designed to recruit the right people into the business. Once a relatively new concept, background checking programmes are now prevalent in both regulated and non-regulated sectors with employers seeking to mitigate risk and respond effectively to increased pressure from the public to ensure ethical and legal practices. At the same time, as Read more…
Employee Screening Implications Of The New Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD)
What is the IDD? The Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) replaced the Insurance Mediation Directive (IMD) from 1st October 2018 and primarily affects those that distribute insurance and reinsurance products. At its core, it aims to ‘enhance consumer protection when buying insurance, and to support competition between insurance distributors by creating a level playing field.’ Mainly the IDD aims Read more…
Issuing references on your employees
The process of issuing employment references typically sits in the ‘low effort, low value’ quadrant of the value to effort matrix. Providing these references for either job or mortgage applications is a straightforward administrative task which nonetheless has the capacity to consume a huge about of HR time and resource. Seemingly ever increasing in volume, Read more…
Checking Qualifications: A cautionary tale for employers
The recent case of a senior NHS executive who earned £1m working in senior roles, despite having lied about his qualifications, highlights the danger of fraud in the recruitment process. According to a recent report in The Guardian, Jon Andrewes claimed to have two PhDs and a Masters degree, although in reality he only had Read more…
Why checking qualifications matters
For an employer, the suspicion that a potential hire is being less than honest in their application should raise a definite red flag. If someone is prepared to lie about their background or qualifications, will they actually be capable of doing the job? And more to the point, what does that say about their integrity Read more…
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