How to Protect & Promote Your Business:

• Become C.A.U.S.E. Certified.

• Over 3/4 of consumers surveyed would look for C.A.U.S.E. Certified Service Providers, and nearly half would not hire a service worker without C.A.U.S.E. Certification.

• Background checks make good business sense. Follow C.A.U.S.E. Certification Best Practice Screening Guidelines. 


• If you perform criminal background checks on your employees, use it in your advertising.


• Encourage your insurance provider to discount your liability insurance for performing background checks on all of your employees.

• Require (and perform) criminal background checks on all employees, contractors, and subcontractors sent to clients' homes.

Businesses Need to Know:

• 35% of small business failures are attributed to employee-related crime.
  
  
• 73% of job applications contain falsified information.


• Employees steal 10 time more than shoplifters.


• It is estimated that 1.7 million assaults occurred in the workplace each year.


• Negligent hire means that the employer knew or should have known that the employee was unfit for a particular job, hires him anyway, and the employee engages in a violent act.


• Violence in the workplace is on the rise.
  
  

• Employee fraud is the number one reason businesses fail.


• You may be held liable for your employee's actions. KNOW WHO YOU HIRE!


• Criminals may use their employment to find their next victim.

• Background checks make good business sense.