Companies always need to be mindful of the rules and regulations they are abiding by in order to stay compliant. Violations can lead big fines from OSHA, among other things like lawsuits or a higher turnover rate if employees feel their rights were violated due to improper treatment.
If you’re a business owner, do you want to recruit the best possible employees for your company? Or are your hiring practices based on protected information such as race or age. If they are, then understanding compliance means that there is tension and balance between these two opposing forces sales recruitment of talent vs. protection from discrimination in the workplace- which must be achieved if an organization wants to stay out of trouble.
Protected Category
The company’s human resources department is tasked with compliance. The most important function of this department, in the eyes of management and employees alike, is to protect candidates’ private information from discrimination during all stages leading up to hiring – no matter what form it may take.
For example: Your business must not discriminate against a candidate based on their race or gender identity by refusing them employment opportunities; nor can you refuse an applicant for salary purposes because they are pregnant or disabled.
The protection extends far beyond these categories as well though; if your process includes collecting any other personal data including religion, sexual orientation, national origin- which could be inadvertently revealed through social media posts- then HR needs ensure that everything remains confidential until after jobs have been offered and accepted.
Interview
Interviews are one of the most essential parts of any hiring process, but they also raise a lot more questions than just what kind of person you want. Interviews are not only about finding the right candidate for your company; they’re also meant to make sure that candidates do not have anything in their background which would be illegal or unethical for them to join as an employee.
The interview can help both employers and employees establish whether there’s a good fit between each other – if someone doesn’t seem like the best match then we won’t waste time with employment offers when there might be better people out there who will want this job even more! So interviews aren’t all bad; they really allow us some insight into future successes before.
Background Check
Background checks can be an important tool to verify information about a candidate and protect your business from potential employees with suspicious histories. Backgrounds checks are primarily used to verify that the applicant is who they claim, but also serve as confirmation of academic history, employment records, criminal record and other pertinent factors such as driving violations or drug use.
Drug Check
One of these policies that businesses are struggling with is zero-tolerance policy which prohibits any employee from using drugs during their work hours at all or else they will be fired immediately without question. This was common practice until recent years when sporadic testing became more popular due to an increase in public support for legalization as well as increased social acceptability among employees who want to smoke now and then after work hours too!
