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After 9/11 struck our country and the immense rise of workplace violence, employers are running to investigative companies in larger numbers. Employers are doing background checks on their current employees and their family members as well. They are especially running checks on positions that were never given much consideration before. Employers are now also requiring security checks for the “high tech” positions such as computer programming.
In these employee background checks, the employer will also do checks on the spouse and sometimes other members of the family. If one of the members or spouse has a criminal record, the employer has every right to decline the application. This is not only true for military jobs or defense contractors, but for the “high tech” positions as well. This could make it difficult for some people, seeing that one’s chance to get a job is determined on their marriage, but a dishonorable discharge from the U.S. military will automatically eliminate the chance of one to get a security clearance.
There are some pieces of information that cannot be given to the employer. This information includes civil lawsuits, judgments older than 7 years, paid tax liens and collections paid after 7 years, and bankruptcies older than 10 years. Employers are prohibited from requiring applicants to provide copies of their criminal records, but they can receive this information from other sources such as, private agencies.