Some companies witholding school certificates for new job applicants, with the aim of preventing the employee from stealing and then running away with the company's assets. What do you think about it?
Withholding school certificates of new job applicants.
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That is a terrible practice and such a company can be sued. What happened to getting a guarantor as a security for your staff. Doing that, you stop the staff from pursuing any other thing that might need his credentials to process.
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That's right I agree with you. Such a thing should not be implemented. If we truly trust employees properly, there is no need to withhold school certificates. We can use other ways to monitor employees, for example by installing CCTV cameras.
Trust issues can be resolved by telling a potential employee to bring a high ranking citizen to stand for him or her. If he or she steals, no need to chase the staff. Just tell the guarantor to pay. And he is under obligation to pay.
That's just a businessman's excuse for workers not to quickly move to other bigger companies, that's an excuse that doesn't make sense, because the workers' identities already exist in the company so the police can easily arrest them. Original withholding school certificates are often applied to salesman employees, in general, if the diploma is still being held and the worker is about to resign, he must pay a fine.
I don't ever submit my original credentials to any institution unless I am being ordered to do so by a recognized court. My original credentials are my property and for others, it is for viewership only.
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Yes, that's true, that's also the reason. But shouldn't a certified photocopy from the school suffice without withholding the original diploma? Because if the certificates is lost, does the company want to take responsibility?
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Yes you are right I agree with you. Signing a work contract agreement is much better than withholding a certificates, because it is too risky if the certificates is lost, the company must be responsible.
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Maybe that's one of the reasons that the employee does not quickly move to another company. That's how some companies here are like that, it's a pity, bosses like that are usually selfish.
In my location, the company will check the school certificates of the job applicant before the job interview. They may make copies of the certificates, but they do not have the right to withhold the original certificates of the applicant.
I totally agree with you, we don't have to submit original certificates just to work, especially in private companies which may be very irresponsible in case of loss. So submission of original certificates should be avoided.
No institution has the right to withhold any applicant or staff's original certificate. If it is for verification purpose, they can request for a transcript from the school. It can't ever happen in my country.
Same here, i do not think i would accept something like that. Which means if i decide to leave, they also have the power to tell me when i should leave, cause my certificate is in their hands. It makes no Sense for them to even do this at all.
There is no sense to one getting to have their certificates held due to an offer from a company or organisation as it could be used to hold one down at he organisation if there is a better offer for one.