Analyzing Concerns in Preemployment Testing
This Application intends to help you analyze various legal issues that surround background checks and preemployment testing.
Your Instructor will assign you one of the following scenarios from the textbook. You will evaluate your assigned scenario and apply course concepts to it.
Latoya - p. 145, Question 1 - Restaurant worker selection process
After going through the scenario and the associated readings for the week, recommend guidelines to the human resource professional in such a situation by answering the following questions. Your Application should be a minimum of 300 words and posted directly to the Week 2 Application area.
What infraction of law or regulation may be involved, and who is at fault?
What are the complainant's arguments and the employer's defenses?
What investigatory and regulatory processes might be required?
What is your decision on the matter? What corrective action is required? What penalties are due?
Return to this Application by Day 2 of Week 3 to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you learned and the insights you gained as a result of the comments your colleagues made.
Respond to two or more of your colleagues' postings in one or more of the following ways:
Ask a probing question.
Share an insight from having read your colleague's posting.
Offer and support an opinion.
Make a suggestion.
Expand on your colleague's posting.
Be sure to support your work with specific citations from the Learning Resources and any additional sources.