A PEO Will Perform Background Checks For You

Though it's true not every job requires a criminal background check, a PEO will track down a potential employee's past history when required. Where a company's employees routinely enter private homes (plumbers, electricians, painters, carpet installers), where there is contact with school children (bus drivers, school cafeteria workers, school volunteers), or where there is ongoing public contact (bus drivers, catering services), employers clearly have an obligation to ensure that they are hiring people who do not put their customers or the general public at risk. These employers generally request a criminal background check from a state authority. Of course, these checks usually only reveal convictions in that particular state. When criminals or predators move from state to state, they are much harder to track.

But a PEO worthy of its weight in gold will be able to perform a comprehensive background check on employees deemed "higher risk". A professional employment agency doing the hiring and firing for you will be able to track down a prospective employees former addresses and places of work, as well as their criminal histories. Paying a PEO to do the "dirty work" of doing the daily administrative stuff like background checks truly is a worthwhile investment (and only one of many PEO benefits). Your company's worth it, is it not?