Criminal Record Check: Penny Ballem

Penny Ballem: But routine criminal records checks on all employees aren't in the cards as the city works to keep organized crime out while complying with human rights legislation that bars employers from discriminating without justification against someone based on a past criminal record, according to CTV. He was hired as a seasonal trash collector in Vancouver in May, but city manager Penny Ballem said staff did not do a criminal record check at the time, noting the city is a huge employer and sanitation workers have no contact with children or vulnerable adults and VANCOUVER -- The City of Vancouver is reviewing its hiring practices in an effort to make it more difficult for organized crime to get a toe-hold into city operations after news that a member of the Hells Angels was hired as a garbage collector. Court records show Ronald Lising has been convicted of drugs, weapons and assault offences, and in 2005 he was nabbed during a massive investigation that saw police raid Hells Angels clubhouses in Kelowna and Vancouver. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.