Washington (WA) Pre-Employment Screening

Employment Screening In Washington

National Employment Screening provides professional pre employment screening services to Washington employers to help you protect your employees and clients from the costly effects of making a "Bad Hire."

Call anytime to get more information about our Washington Employment screening and employee background check services at 800.459.3034.

We serve Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Blaine, Gig harbor, Van Couver, Olympia and all other Washington cities.

Employment screening law: Giving Employment References In Washington

An employer that discloses information about a current or former employee to a prospective employer or an employment agency, at that employer or agency's specific request, is presumed to be acting in good faith and is immune from civil or criminal liability. This immunity applies, however, only if the disclosure relates to one of the following: the employee's ability to perform the job, the employee's diligence, skill, or reliability in carrying out his or her duties, or any illegal or wrongful act committed by the employee that is related to the duties of his or her job. The statute further establishes that the presumption of good faith may be rebutted only upon a showing of clear and convincing evidence that the information disclosed was knowingly false, deliberately misleading, or made with reckless disregard for the truth. This is a much higher standard than that required in most civil proceedings (more likely than not), but is the same standard already applied by the courts in these cases.

Washington restricts vendor reporting of criminal conviction information to seven years:

Washington waives the seven year time limit if the applicant is reasonably expected make more than $20,000 per year.

Washington (Enacted 1993)

RCW 19.182.040

No CRA may report "records of arrest, indictment, or conviction of a crime, which from the date of disposition, release, or parole, antedate the report by more than seven years.

Washington employment screening law:
 
Employers can get criminal history information only for specified purposes, which include pre-employment background checking as it relates to that applicant’s fitness to perform the particular job sought.
 
Employers must notify the employee or prospective employee that they are making an inquiry into their criminal record and must make the records available to the employee.
 
Reference: Washington Admin. Code, Chapter 162, Sections 162-12-100et se
 
Washington State employment screening: At Will Law

Washington pre employment screening law states that employees are presumed to be "at will." At-will employees may be terminated for any reason, so long as it is not illegal. Generally, employees that work under an employment contract can only be terminated for reasons specified in the contract. In Washington, in order to overcome the at-will presumption, an employee must show that the employer made clear and unequivocal statements of job security to the employee.

The most common exception to employment-at will is for public policy. This holds that an employee is wrongfully discharged if the termination is counter to an explicit policy of the government. One example is the discharge of an employee for filing a workers' compensation or ADA claim.
 

Pre employment screening services available in Washington: (Click on each link for more information)
 

Lake Washington Human Resource Association, a chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).

Southwest Washington Human Resources Management Association

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