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Legality of credit and background checks (also cost)
 
tdinh
Posted: 15 October 2009 12:29 PM  
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Hello All,

Back in Canada I use to perform credit and criminal checks annually on all of my employees. I?m now in Spain and I want to do the same thing.

I hear it is illegal here in Spain, can anyone confirm this? If it is possible can you forward me an agency near Barcelona that performs this service. In Canada I used backcheck.net. Per person the cost was around $60CAD for both criminal and credit. The company is similar to a bank so there were no issues in Canada.

The dilemma is basically I don?t want to hire anyone with a shady history.
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bealerDSB
Posted: 15 October 2009 01:49 PM   [ # 1 ]  
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tdinh - 15 October 2009 12:29 PM

Hello All,

Back in Canada I use to perform credit and criminal checks annually on all of my employees. I?m now in Spain and I want to do the same thing.

I hear it is illegal here in Spain, can anyone confirm this? If it is possible can you forward me an agency near Barcelona that performs this service. In Canada I used backcheck.net. Per person the cost was around $60CAD for both criminal and credit. The company is similar to a bank so there were no issues in Canada.

The dilemma is basically I don?t want to hire anyone with a shady history.

I did a lil’ Googling & found this, seems to be a Company that can do Employment checks in Spain for $100, Civil & Criminal Record checks etc.. However, it appears that it can only apply to people that are Registered in Spain.

IE: Residents (I guess if it doesn’t throw up a report they’re not registered…)

Hope it’s of some use..
DSB.

http://www.infocubic.net/international/spain.htm
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tdinh
Posted: 15 October 2009 05:59 PM   [ # 2 ]  
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Hi DSB, yeah I saw this also when I was googling around. It looks to be international and not only specific in Spain so I don?t know if they are legal under LOPD in Spain.
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bealerDSB
Posted: 16 October 2009 08:17 AM   [ # 3 ]  
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tdinh - 15 October 2009 05:59 PM

Hi DSB, yeah I saw this also when I was googling around. It looks to be international and not only specific in Spain so I don?t know if they are legal under LOPD in Spain.

Ahh…My bad.
Me thinks you may be better off speaking to a Spanish Lawyer about the avenues to take.
I’m sure they can point you in the right direction.

DSB.
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