Garda Vetting as a requirement of employment

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Henny Penny

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I hope I'm asking this question in the right area.

As a condition of employment many employers seek garda vetting for their employees. Can anybody tell me whether an employer has the right to refuse to employ someone based on the vetting report received? Does the prospective employee have the right to challange the issue if he/she feels that his record does not affect his/her abilty to do the job.

Secondly, AFAIK Garda Vetting can be obtained for EU citizens resident in Ireland through the central vetting unit but I'm not sure if vetting can be obtained for persons originally resident outside the EU. If someone can enlighten me I would be very grateful.

As always thanks so much aam for the help.
 
Hi Henny Penny,
I can't answer second part of your question but as to the first- the area I am familiar with is when you need garda vetting for any type of work with children or youth work..A lot of the youth organisations will take on to do your garda vetting application-some of them will send in their own even if you have already done the garda vetting with another organisation...if you have a record it is my understanding that it depends what the offence was...naturally if it involved abuse it will be an issue and I don't imagine it would be acceptable..if it is something like a traffic offence for example- it wont be a issue
 
As a condition of employment many employers seek garda vetting for their employees
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Yes. This can apply to several areas including the ones mentioned by the previous poster and security work. I am sure there are many other types of work also.

Can anybody tell me whether an employer has the right to refuse to employ someone based on the vetting report received?
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AFAIK, yes.

I'm not sure if vetting can be obtained for persons originally resident outside the EU
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I am sure the police in the country of origin would provide some form of documentation if requested by the individual applying for the job.

I would guess there is a procedure in place for this in most countries.

 
Yes, it can. We got a prospective employee from Oz vetted.
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Interesting. Did you need the prospective employee's consent? (I would guess you did)
 
I had to complete a garda vetting form last week for a new job. You need your PPS No. and have to list everywhere you've lived from birth! I also had to give my UK and Hong Kong addresses. I was told this could take at least 6 weeks to process. You also do have to sign your consent on the form and answer questions regarding any convictions etc.
 
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