Should Employers Screen Applicants for Problem Gambling Before Employment? - page 6.

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Quote from: malcovi2 on August 24, 2022, 10:15:53 PM

Employers have the right to pick their employees especially if the job requires in dealing with people directly, I wouldn't want to risk that a customer would caught an employee gambling when they are on duty. Also screening applicants with gambling addiction would be hard since they can just deny it.

because it is their company and money that will loss along the way if they choose the wrong employee , and besides why would hire someone who is badly involving is gambling when there are lot of applicant that competent in the position and with no hassle in long time?
maybe those gamblers should realized that they must not turn their self in gambling more so they will not be penalize in finding job in the future.

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Employers have the right to pick their employees especially if the job requires in dealing with people directly, I wouldn't want to risk that a customer would caught an employee gambling when they are on duty. Also screening applicants with gambling addiction would be hard since they can just deny it.

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if they can find them out? then of course i don't wanna hire an employee that has been hard involvement into gambling because one way or another? gambling will surely be a boundary of problem from his part , maybe not in the beginning but eventually this will be a serious problem from the employer and of course the employee.

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Quote from: Zlantann on August 24, 2022, 08:36:05 PM

Quote from: Baofeng on August 24, 2022, 07:58:04 PM

I guess it's the same as other jobs though, you go to interviews and I don't think that the employer will be interested on your personal life. But there could be jobs that require a full check, like court records and others. Of course, there could be data that it not going to be released to them because of privacy. So I would say no, and maybe the best thing to do is to really monitor them, tell your managers if they will see some signs of early gambling addiction or any problems that might arise in the future.

Any job that relates to keeping or recording funds needs a high level of financial prudence and self control. Hence, checking if an applicant has gambling problem or addiction is recommended. But the truth is nobody would agree to inform an employer that he has gambling problem. Maybe the firm would have to get the information from past employers, friends or family members. This because in my country their is now reliable database to check the criminal status or employment records of applicants.

It is usual for a business owner to want to know the background of his employees to avoid problems that could occur in the future. But usually, employees who don't have problems can later cause problems in the future because everyone can change, whether it turns out to be good or bad. Here the employee needs to have the honesty to be able to tell about himself so that the casino owner can find out and maybe be able to provide a solution before he accepts that person as his employee. But that is very rare in a business place because usually the company only sees educational data, a glimpse of him, where he has worked before. For others, the company will check later.

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Quote from: Zlantann on August 24, 2022, 08:36:05 PM

Quote from: Baofeng on August 24, 2022, 07:58:04 PM

I guess it's the same as other jobs though, you go to interviews and I don't think that the employer will be interested on your personal life. But there could be jobs that require a full check, like court records and others. Of course, there could be data that it not going to be released to them because of privacy. So I would say no, and maybe the best thing to do is to really monitor them, tell your managers if they will see some signs of early gambling addiction or any problems that might arise in the future.

Any job that relates to keeping or recording funds needs a high level of financial prudence and self control. Hence, checking if an applicant has gambling problem or addiction is recommended. But the truth is nobody would agree to inform an employer that he has gambling problem. Maybe the firm would have to get the information from past employers, friends or family members. This because in my country their is now reliable database to check the criminal status or employment records of applicants.

Without a doubt someone that is managing a lot of money will be investigated way more profoundly than your average employee, and without a doubt criminal records will play a part in that investigation, so anyone that had any kind of addiction problem will probably never be considered for those kind of jobs, which shows why it is important to keep your records as clean as possible as you will never know the opportunities that you could lose due to any slip you may have had during your life.

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Quote from: Baofeng on August 24, 2022, 07:58:04 PM

I guess it's the same as other jobs though, you go to interviews and I don't think that the employer will be interested on your personal life. But there could be jobs that require a full check, like court records and others. Of course, there could be data that it not going to be released to them because of privacy. So I would say no, and maybe the best thing to do is to really monitor them, tell your managers if they will see some signs of early gambling addiction or any problems that might arise in the future.

Any job that relates to keeping or recording funds needs a high level of financial prudence and self control. Hence, checking if an applicant has gambling problem or addiction is recommended. But the truth is nobody would agree to inform an employer that he has gambling problem. Maybe the firm would have to get the information from past employers, friends or family members. This because in my country their is now reliable database to check the criminal status or employment records of applicants.

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In my opinion employers should have the right to select the employee's profile they want, because after all it's a p2p deal between both parties exclusively which shouldn't involve anyone else. If a businessman doesn't want a gambler on his payroll, that is his right to not want to hire gamblers, even if they aren't problem gamblers, there is nothing they can do about it.

The same is valid for another aspects and characteristics including age, gender, health conditions... Not every companies will use this metodology when choosing their employees, though, so it's not a big issue if a gambler is denied by one of them, since there will be still many others where he can apply for a job.

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Quote from: Baofeng on August 24, 2022, 07:58:04 PM

I guess it's the same as other jobs though, you go to interviews and I don't think that the employer will be interested on your personal life. But there could be jobs that require a full check, like court records and others. Of course, there could be data that it not going to be released to them because of privacy. So I would say no, and maybe the best thing to do is to really monitor them, tell your managers if they will see some signs of early gambling addiction or any problems that might arise in the future.

Like if your job handles money or accounting. Embezzlement is a common crime among accounting employees, when they are in it the temptation is strong to feed the addiction. Just like how we do in online casinos these days. Sometimes portfolio decreases because we took some funds to bet in casinos. I rarely do it but yes it happens and I'm not even an addict.

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I guess it's the same as other jobs though, you go to interviews and I don't think that the employer will be interested on your personal life. But there could be jobs that require a full check, like court records and others. Of course, there could be data that it not going to be released to them because of privacy. So I would say no, and maybe the best thing to do is to really monitor them, tell your managers if they will see some signs of early gambling addiction or any problems that might arise in the future.

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If im an applicant then i wouldn't really tell in regarding on what my hobbies are which does really have that chance on making yourself looks bad specially if it comes to addiction or does involved some

behavior which might really be putting up some risk on some company.They would really be that meticulous if ever they would really be ignoring or rejecting people who are involved on gambling.

I heavily agree on post above that its their rules since they do own the company or having the control of it, no matter or whatever rules or laws that had been implied
then it would be just basically needing for it to be followed by those people who managed on hiring people.

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Does it make everything alright if that kind of question will be asked or being screened to the applicants?

Judge the employee in the way they are handling the work assigned to them. If they do it properly, the companies have nothing to do if that person is having a gambling problem. What if the one who apply was really good at that position but has a gambling problem, is that a reason already that the person will not be hired or being fired?

Sounds unfair and not a friendly approach to me.

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No...? I mean, if employees were able to steal money from their companies, I'm pretty sure they're just that skilled (if you can call it a skill), addict or not. Let's not even mention that identifying an addict in itself would be rather difficult, but in the first place, any employee can steal from their companies if they were skilled enough and they wanted to. These are similar cases related to gambling but there are probably a whole lot more other cases not even related to gambling. I'd rather make companies actually improve their security against outsiders and insiders.

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I doubt the idea of screening applicants for gambling problems before employment would hold water. Who is to say the same employers don't have gambling addictions? Digital technology has simplified gambling to the extent that one doesn't have to visit any special spot to gamble, that's not to say one can't visit such places occasionally and try a few spins and stack some real-life odds.
How does one rate an addict, if the signs that show addiction don't manifest?
A better way I think they check if one has gambling problems is by checking for qualms arising from bad debt. You know the kind of deficit that is an open secret. It could lead them to ask an applicant during an oral interview. What do I know?

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Usually a company has different criteria in terms of recruiting its employees. Some are not strict at all, some are moderate, but some are strict. Of course, this will also usually be proportional to the wages that will be given to the workers. And if the company really relates or is sensitive to finances, then I think it's okay if they make such regulations or collect the information. this is because gambling addiction may be bad for him and his work environment. However, if the person is in recovery or has become good, it's just a matter of looking at the other qualifications for that person, whether it is appropriate and appropriate or not.

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It will definitely help companies if they could actually screen their applicants but how would they really do it? It's tough since they could gamble privately online or at the convenience of their home. Their best chance is if they see them play on popular land-based casinos but proving that they are heavily addicted is another thing.

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Quote from: Davidvictorson on August 24, 2022, 01:30:26 PM

I'd like to know your thoughts - Do you think that employers should screen potential employees for problem gambling before employment?

If they had similar issues like this in the past, they can do this as a precautionary measure and if the position that is going to fill in is all about finances they can do this, companies have their own rules it may be intruding on their employee's personal matters but they want to see to it that the character fits the position and they will have no future issues on the person holding the position.

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Quote from: Davidvictorson on August 24, 2022, 01:30:26 PM

I'd like to know your thoughts - Do you think that employers should screen potential employees for problem gambling before employment?

Some employers do background checks. Which would return prior criminal cases related to a gambling addiction.

Beyond that there may not be a credible means of detecting gambling addiction. For all intents and purposes the background of a casual gambler and addict would look similar.

A push could be made for employers to do more background checks and deter hiring applicants with prior criminal history. But I think that trend is frowned upon.

Its unlikely that employers will implement routine background checks which would screen those with a past criminal history related to gambling addiction.

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This is not applicable to every company, imagine if you are just an applying for a lower position and being asked like this, if you are an applicant you should be more aware of data privacy and this is not necessary though the company can really ask for this but still depend on them.

If you are not ok with this one, then better to look for another company where you can feel that they value your privacy and your freedom. Gambling is not bad at all, we can't generalize the problem that happened to your friend OP, many gamblers still know how to handle their finances properly.

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Quote from: livingfree on August 24, 2022, 06:15:16 PM

Your company, your rule.

For those companies that figuring it out what are your hobbies, they can ask questions related to gambling but let it leave to the hiring managers. They should be the one on task doing and finding out who are the addicted ones if there's any.

They can give series of exams to their applicants but in an instance, the serious severe gambling addicts can just lie on those interviews and exams if they're being asked and then they'll still be able to go through the process.

And that what makes it hard that even a company would really be having that kind of set-up which wouldnt really ensure that they could filter out gambling addicts which as been said that they could
really just simply deny that they are involved with gambling activity or simply being an addict.Its true that this is really just depending on the company owner or whether into its hiring manager
whether he would be asking this matter or would not.For companies which do involves huge money then i would understand if they would reach out into that certain extent
when it comes to these kind of questions which everyone could neither deny or accept about gambling addiction.

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I agree with some of the posts on page 1 how it becomes possible, because an applicant will say no even if he is gambler, because if he says yes then he will not get a job to fill open positions. Gambling is not a bad thing if the person is responsible for his work and personal, by screening workers for that position the thing an employer will definitely look at is skill, but I think in the financial position there is an additional that is honesty.

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