Category Archives: Employment Screening

BBC News reports that Matthew Cooper – an employee of Aviva, one of the UK’s biggest insurers – stole information from his employers and sold on hundreds of customer records to a claims company and two firms of solicitors.

According to the Lancashire Telegraph, a serial liar and convicted child sex offender applied for restaurant jobs using a false CV, attempting to pass himself off as a top chef, whilst failing to reveal any previous convictions.

A woman has been jailed after she “systematically” stole £10,000 worth of stock from a Cambridge clothes shop and then sold it on eBay.

Madeline Stock has been locked up for four months after she sold off stock from clothing store Warehouse over a period of two years.

A Merseyside Police superintendent lied about himself and made misleading statements on his CV to secure transfers and career promotions.

Michael Martin wrongly claimed to have a university degree and said he led a review for implementing new policing strategies, following a high-profile death of a woman.

An investigation by the BBC raises troubling questions about the risks an over-reliance on locums poses to patient safety.

A recent court case involving a locum submitting forged documents highlighted concerns that some NHS trusts and agencies were not doing the most basic pre-employment checks.

The Evening Standard reported that one of the City’s top lawyers has quit his job after it was discovered that he had invented large chunks of a ‘glittering CV’.

Dennis O’Riordan boasted of first-class degrees and a doctorate at Oxford University and of studying at Harvard University – all of which were lies.