Shoring up eroding options. (employee hiring)

Security Management, June, 1989 by Inbau, Fred E.

Shoring Up Eroding Options The right to guard against employee theft is eroding. Employers, customers, and honest employees are the losers.

IN RECENT YEARS AMERICAN employers have experienced a serious erosion of their ability to hire honest and qualified employees. This is largely due to new laws and government regulations that have unduly and unfairly restricted hiring practices. Similar laws and regulations have restricted the rights of employers to discipline or terminate employees who have committed illegal acts on the job or otherwise violated their employers' trust. The consequences have been harmful not only to employers but also to their customers, their trustworthy employees, and the public at large.

These expanding restrictions on...

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