Employment

Pre-employment Screening Of Doctors

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Verification Of Professional Degrees

Among other things, doctors as a profession and Healthcare as an industry share a common need a good reputation. For doctors their good name is as important as their medical skills and abilities. For hospitals, an excellent reputation is as desirable as modern equipment and the best facilities.

A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.. Lord Jeffery

When the good name is brought into disrepute it is the hardest of tasks to remedy. That is precisely the predicament in which Delhi hospitals find themselves.

Over the last few months there has been a spate of reports in various media about unscrupulous people practicing medicine and masquerading as doctors. They have been carrying on their wicked work without the education, training or qualifications to do so. These quacks have even infiltrated the sanctums of private hospitals and are no more confined to the narrow lanes and backstreets of crowded slums and unauthorized colonies.

Reports reveal that the problem is rather large and widespread. Large enough to be alarming. The, now dissolved, Medical Council of India had estimated that the number of quacks operating in the Delhi region would be about 40,000! Now compare that number with 45,000 (DMC database), which is the number of genuine registered doctors.

The erstwhile Medical Council of India (MCI) and the Delhi Medical Council (DMC) have been working hard to get a grip on the problem and clean out the Augean stables. As a result of their efforts some 25 fake doctors were discovered working in respected private hospitals. These quacks have been suspended – with police cases filed against them – and are now enmeshed in the judicial process.

The lesson to be taken from these findings is that hospitals should wake up quickly to the vital necessity of verifying the educational and medical qualifications and antecedents of the medical staff they hire. They cannot afford being tarnished by the bad reputation that comes with hiring quacks and other unqualified medical personnel.

Background Screening and authentication of education qualifications should be rigorously carried out along with checks of professional degrees and references. These checks are especially crucial in an industry such as healthcare where the price of wrong hiring could be the loss of a life.
In a recent AuthBridge study, Background Screening Trends: October 08 July 09 it was found that 69% of discrepant cases relating to education were due to fake/forged documents. The bigger picture is even more disquieting. They show that 30% of all the cases we handled were discrepant – for a variety of reasons. Of these the majority pertained to false and fake qualifications. While these statistics do not directly relate to the medical profession, it is a pointer to what could be the magnitude of the problem facing it.

While hospitals of all hues and sizes need to be alive to the seriousness of the problem, it is also important for the various medical governing bodies to conduct checks of their own. They too have to retain their good name and integrity of their associations. The reconstituted Medical Council of India has to work, now and in its future avatar, to safeguard its international reputation too.

The following quotation is rather apt in the light of the problem. A good name is better than precious ointment (Ecclesiastes 7:1).

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Employment

Birmingham Employment Attorneys offering legal help to wronged employees

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Modern day work environment with its cut throat competition and financial compulsions comes with a lot of work place law violations. Very often you may find yourself being victimized or treated unlawfully by your employer. It is here that an Employment Attorneys comes in handy to you in your battle for justice. There are several law firms in Birmingham and adjoining areas that offer youlegal help in such needs no matter what the magnitude of the violation or stature of the company.

These law firms provide you with legal assistance in a wide array of cases like discrimination, wrongful termination or demotion, claims etc. They handle cases of retaliatory actions taken by the employer in response to whistleblowing on your part. In addition to these, they handle the cases where overtime fees are not paid.

As per the federal law, it is illegal on the part of an employer to discriminate you on the basis of sex, your place of origin or your religious belief. It is also illegal to be discriminating on the groundage and physical disability.Such discriminations can come in the form of termination of service, demotion, under payment or even forced transfers and low increments. Legally you are protected against allsuch discrimination. These firms and their attorneys help even with cases of unequal pay as well as in cases when you are laid-off because of your age.

Non-payment of over time fees is another unlawful act that these firms help you with. If you are a victim of sexual Harassment,these firms can provide legal assistance to you irrespective of your sex. Theyoffer assistance in cases of medical leave rights violation committed by the employer.You may also seek their assistance in case you are a whistle blower and have brought irregularities of your company into the government’s notice.

In all of the above mentioned scenarios, your employer is not only bound to pay you compensation for violations that they have made, but also reimburse the attorney’s professional fees. The assistance of Birmingham Employment Attorneys and the legal advice that they provide can help you fight for your right. If you are looking for the same at Birmingham neighborhood, then there are a number of firms with dedicated attorneys on board who can extend their helping hand to you. Remember, you are not alone in your fight for justice against powerful employer.

Birmingham Employment Attorneys offer assistance to those who suffer discrimination in the hands of their employers. The assistance of these attorneys helps them in fighting for their rights.

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Employment

Vehicle Tracking And Employee Rights.

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Many companies operating fleet who introduce a vehicle tracking system for the first time would, of course, be concerned in the impact on their employees when installing mobile workforce tracking or a GPS vehicle tracking across their entire operation.

The rise of commercial vehicle tracking across the relevant industries dependent on running the most cost-effective and efficient fleet they possibly can has meant many changes of working practice, not least for the vehicle drivers.

Introducing change of an employees working conditions, obviously requires great care to be taken, not least from a legal point of view and how it affects their individual contracts of employment.

Essentially, there are two key differences to be determined when instigating mobile workforce solutions:

Business use only or – Business and Personal use.

Business Use …

Fitting a vehicle tracker into a vehicle to be used only for day-to-day, strictly work related business, e.g. delivery van, it is recommended that employees driving the vehicle should be informed not only that the system will be fitted, but also why it is being fitted, how it works and exactly the nature of the data to be collected and what its use will be and how it is intended to benefit everyone at the company.

It is important that employees fully understand and appreciate all the objective reasons for wishing to obtain the information that will be provided from the system and why it is needed to help with business efficiency and improvement. Concerns and objections raised by employees obviously need to be discussed to reach agreement on fitting the system but legal advice should be sought if agreement cannot be reached.

Business and Personal use…

Essentially, the same considerations as in business use only but with the addition of taking into account that the system will provide data on the vehicles movements outside working time. Concern may be raised by employees that this data could be used to obtain information about their private lives and if so, could be seen as an infringement of their human rights.

Once again, it is strongly advised and to be made absolutely clear that the data collected by the system will only be accessed for data relating to working hours only, unless the vehicle is stolen or in an accident. Employees need to know as to who will have access to the data and its use for business.

Company contracts of employment should be redrawn so there should be clause which allows for the fitting and/or use of the system in any vehicles provide for company/personal use.

Employment

Employment Agency in New Jersey … Link Between Employees And Employers!

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If you are looking for a job in New Jersey, then the best way to go about it is to get in touch with an employment agency in New Jersey or recruitment consultants in New Jersey as soon as possible!

What Is an Employment Agency?

An employment agency New Jersey, like many other agencies, bridges the distance between employees and employers. An employment agency would help in getting your skills noticed by the employers. An employment agency in New Jersey, for example, would match your skill set with the needs of a particular employer. If you suit the criteria, then the agency will arrange for a personal meeting.

How Do These Agencies Work

Many agencies have specific areas that they target. For example, some agencies specialize in specific industries such as health care, information technology, accounting, or executive assistance. There is also another kind of employment agency known as an executive-search firm that specializes in providing employment at the executive level. All agencies have a database of workers classified according to their skills. When an employer posts a vacancy with the agency, it decides on the suitable candidate for the vacancy and arranges a meeting. Some agencies also provide training in preparing a resume, interview, and presentation-making skills.

What Is A Recruitment Consultant?

You can also contact a recruitment consultant in New Jersey for your job needs. The job profile of the consultant is almost the same; that is, they also match the skills of a candidate with those required by a specific organization. While an employment agency typically works with individuals, a recruitment consultant works with organizations. A recruitment consultant works by understand the needs of the human resources department of a company, and then searching for appropriate candidates. A consultant can also look for a candidate through head-hunters, networking and referrals. Once some candidates are selected, then begins the screening process, interviews, and background checks. They also have the responsibility of building relationships between the employee and the employer in addition to understanding the needs of the recruiter. A recruitment consultant in New Jersey or any other part of the world would also help you in negotiating salary, training needs and career growth and opportunities.

Some companies perform both functions, that of employment agency and recruitment consultant New Jersey. It doesn’t matter if you are looking for a temp job, a part-time job or full-time job, an employment agency in New Jersey can help you find what you are looking for.

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Employment

Hiring A Professional Pre Employment Background Screening Company – Advantages For Human Resource

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With increasing competition in job market, there is also an increase of fake credentials and forge documents provided by the candidates to get a higher position. These types of candidates not only deprive of the right of other candidate who have the original credentials, but also dangerous for the company itself. Therefore, the importance of pre employment background screening has been increasing with every single day.

Background screening of an employee is primarily a work of Human Resource department of a company. But most of the companies hire professional background screening companies to do the task for them. There are several good reasons for hiring a professional company. We will discuss few of them in little detail.

First and foremost reason for hiring a professional screening company is that, if a screening company is good, it will certainly have years of experience in employment verification, criminal background screening, educational document verification and so on. Hence, these companies can screen the background of a candidate far better than the in-house screening done by the human resource department.

Another good reason for hiring a professional background screening service provider is that they do it very fast. A first priority of any HR department is to complete the hiring process as quickly as possible. And if HR gets involve in screening of a candidate, the task may get slow because of other human resource related course. It can become a hassle for HR and for candidate both. So HR prefers to hire a background screening company do the process fast.

Furthermore, cost saving is one thing that make a company to hire screening company. If HR does it by itself, it will need in-house professionals to do the screening of candidates. Means company has to pay these professionals to do the screening, other costs are also involved. On the other hand, HR finds services of background screening companies cost effective. The reason of cost effectiveness is that these companies already have established networks; they are specialized in their work. They find no hassle in doing background screening of an employee anywhere in the world, and hence become cost effective.

Conclusion

Pre employment background screening is one most important task which no company wants to overlook. But this work needs specialization, and background screening companies usually have years of experience and are specialized in executing the task efficiently. Therefore, HR department should think about hiring a good background screening company before establishing an in-house section for screening of a job candidate.

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