How far can an employeer go back on a criminal record?
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How far can an employeer go back on a criminal record?
A sales company wants to hire me. How far back can they go on criminal records. I have a misdeminor charge 7 years ago.
Asked on August 8, 2012 under Employment Labor Law, North Carolina
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Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
Most background reporting companies can go back twenty to twenty five years with respect to a check of an potential employee concerning criminal convictions as a matter of course on standard reports. If need be, anyone who wants to spend the time and money can do a check of an individual for criminal convictions from year eighteen of his or her life onward.
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