Posted by: Jeff M. Freeman | March 7, 2011
What About A Background Check for Employers??
Seems these days of huge Executive salaries and unfunded pensions, embezzled investment schemes and federal tax dollars used to bail-out failing banks that it should be an automatic service for employees to have access to background information of their future employers before spending the next 30 years of their life serving them – including state and federal govt as employers. I don’t mean just background information about when the company started and who the principal owners are. Nope! That’s not enough. Employees should have access to how this business began, where the funds were obtained, what the credit scores of the principal owners is now and what it was when the business was started. Any criminal information including immediate family criminal history – I mean, how fair would it be to subject ourselves as employees to an underlying family feud just to be possibly gunned down at the workplace because our luck was bad?
If those state governments had been required to report on the state of their promised pension plans to the voting public every year the information of underfunding could have been fixed by people that care and who are represented effectively could make necessary adjustments by vote if necessary to ensure these pension plans remained solvent and fully funded.
On the federal side, over the years our federal government has allowed funds from the Social Security Trust to be allocated toward other budget uses all the while promising that it would replace in a short time what has been taken. That has now destroyed our Social Security Trust – well it will be empty in a short time. The youth of our great country has not a care about SST and for most of them would claim we have more important things to do besides dealing with the old people. OUCH!
Last time I looked, America is still a country that we all own a stake in. If we the people are to be represented by a government we vote in to an office sworn to abide by rules of governance – we need to fix this discrepancy immediately. Never should OUR govt have the power to alter laws to benefit big corporations OVER the good of the people it serves!!!! NEVER!
Or maybe a revolution is in order in our country. Maybe so.
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Seems these days of huge Executive salaries and unfunded pensions, embezzled investment schemes and federal tax dollars used to bail-out failing banks that it should be an automatic service for employees to have access to background information of their future employers before spending the next 30 years of their life serving them – including state and federal govt as employers. I don’t mean just background information about when the company started and who the principal owners are. Nope! That’s not enough. Employees should have access to how this business began, where the funds were obtained, what the credit scores of the principal owners is now and what it was when the business was started. Any criminal information including immediate family criminal history – I mean, how fair would it be to subject ourselves as employees to an underlying family feud just to be possibly gunned down at the workplace because our luck was bad?
If those state governments had been required to report on the state of their promised pension plans to the voting public every year the information of underfunding could have been fixed by people that care and who are represented effectively could make necessary adjustments by vote if necessary to ensure these pension plans remained solvent and fully funded.
On the federal side, over the years our federal government has allowed funds from the Social Security Trust to be allocated toward other budget uses all the while promising that it would replace in a short time what has been taken. That has now destroyed our Social Security Trust – well it will be empty in a short time. The youth of our great country has not a care about SST and for most of them would claim we have more important things to do besides dealing with the old people. OUCH!
Last time I looked, America is still a country that we all own a stake in. If we the people are to be represented by a government we vote in to an office sworn to abide by rules of governance – we need to fix this discrepancy immediately. Never should OUR govt have the power to alter laws to benefit big corporations OVER the good of the people it serves!!!! NEVER!
Or maybe a revolution is in order in our country. Maybe so.
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