Back Ground Plus
Back Ground Plus
Q1: Getting legislation passed
Idea Description
Create public access site that allows employers, schools, and etc. to post positive accomplishments for individuals that is to be given with a background check. Instead of everything in your background being a negative representation of you, include what good you have done as well.
Benifits:
increased employment, better representation of people during background check, presenting individuals in the best light possible.
What will you do if you win $10,000 for this idea?
build the service and work on getting legislation passed requiring this with each background check.
Vote for it now.
There all sorts of people in the marketplace looking for jobs everyday. Although, somtimes they have a good resume an employer will reject them b/c of a simple background check. This is has been a growing problem in today economy.
http://wasteage.com/mag/waste_legislation_backup_employee/
The link above gives an example of the problem more in detail about an individual who kept getting tuned down one job at a time and did notbunderstand why until he found out who the bacground acengy was that was doing the checks on him.
The man said his indentity was stolen and that is the reason that his record showed up with with all of these past thefts at work. The background company never corrected his data. scary huh.
I not sure what kind of legislation could be passed however, the Fair Credit Reporting Act was passed in 1997 to give the employer the right to allow the employee to choose if he/she would approve the background check. Perhaps there can be more done with this, and maybe more bills like it.