Post Offer Screen for own Facilities
Fri, 02/15/2008 - 2:02pm
I am employed in a hospital where we have recently begun post Offer screening for our new employees. I have completed a Physical Demands Job Description for these positions and we're screening all employees post offer. My supervisor was in a meeting for the region and it was discussed the legalities of screening your own employees vs. using an outside agency. Anybody have any data or suggestions? Thanks. Sandy
Tue, 02/19/2008 - 12:38pm
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Post Offer Screen for own Facilities
I assume you are discussing a Post Offer, Pre-Placement test vs. a medical screen. I think you would be better able to defend your impartiality from a legal perspective-especially in a discrimination suit, if the "evaluator" was not a employee of that same company. I think that all of the work that went into creating a job description has saved your company money, but being a hospital (a fiscally large entity), I would do as much as I could to resist getting sued. If you were doing this post offer, pre-placement screen for a company in your area, you would not reveal to the employer the results of the applicants performance on individual tests, would you? I think the accusation would be that bias was given to someone who was close to meeting the demands, but either someone else did "better" or that the score was too close. That is not how it is supposed to work. The accusation would be far from the truth, of course, but hard to defend, in my opinion. Hope this helps!
We're not using numerical scoring for employment. Just a basic pass/fail based from essential job functions determined by job analysis. Thanks for the help. Sandy