Temp Agencies and Background Checks, Why Options

[Ross Russell]

There is an item in the news about a temp agency that left personal information about its temps sitting on a curb where anyone could pick up the info and steal the identities of the temps.

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/7916316.htm

The boxes from Med Dent Solutions were filled with hundreds of applications for technical and clerical jobs in the medical field. The paperwork included names, addresses, and Social Security and driver's license numbers -- more than enough information for an identity thief to open credit card accounts or buy cars.

"There ought to be a law," said Keidra Avery, a Charlotte clinical assistant who said she got jobs through Med Dent during the past year. "If they can put my information out there like that on the street, what's the point of preventing identity theft."





The thing about temp agencies and background checks is this:

If the client is so ***king concerned about ***king security, why the ***k is it using temps?