Background Screening for Seasonal Hires

The holiday season is rapidly approaching and retailers are gearing up for the holiday rush. The amount of seasonal help hired by retailers in 2008 was 325,000 people and in 2013 that number more than doubled to 786,000. Toys R Us alone announced they will hire 45,000 seasonal employees this year which more than doubles their entire work force. Now is the time for retailers to review their pre-employment screening policies and screen seasonal help the same way they would for full-time employees. Retailers should partner with a third party background screening company to get discounted volume deals and to perform the background checks on their behalf. A third party background screener can also help keep retailers current with the laws governing the use of background checks in the background screening industry particularly the proper use of criminal background checks. Seasonal workers are still representing the company or organization they are employed by and the same risks are present with part-time help as is with full time employees. Proper employment screening even for seasonal workers is a very important piece to risk mitigation and not a good place to cut corners. One bad employee (full time or seasonal) can be very costly while performing background checks is now very affordable and by far the risks of not performing a background check outweighs that of the cost of running one. To read more about seasonal background checks and why background screening of seasonal employees is important view recent CriminalBackgroundRecords.com press release:http://www.criminalbackgroundrecords.com/news/2014-11-14-Seasonal-Hiring-and-Background-Screening.html