Misrepresentations of Yourself on Job Applications Can Hurt Your Workers Comp Claim

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Padding your resume and/or lying on your job application

In order to get a job or be considered ahead of other job applicants competing for the same position, some individuals make the mistake of padding their resumes or even lying on their applications.  This kind of misrepresentation of yourself on a job application or resume can obviously come back you haunt you in many ways – even in a workers comp case. Doing this will eventually come back to haunt you in a number of ways because so many employers today are investigating prospective employees and even conducting background searches.

The consequences of falsifying your application and resume

First and foremost, whether you think everyone else is doing this (and even if they are) you want to think long and hard about falsifying your information.  Remember that if the potential employer you are applying to has the least bit of suspicion, they are going to start checking your claims of receiving degrees, references, work history, and other facets of your application and/or resume.

Here are just a few of the consequences that can come back to haunt you should you be foolish enough to lie on your application and pad your resume:

Being assigned to tasks that you are not trained for or do not have the skills to perform; Damage to your reputation not being able to succeed on your job; Embarrassment suffered when you are caught; Lying over and over again in order to cover up your original untruths; Losing your job

Additionally, based on the misrepresentation of any information on your application and/or resume, your employer can terminate you at any time if they choose to do so.  Examples of what can cause you to be terminated include:

Being untruthful about the dismissal from a prior job for any problems related to employee honesty (e.g. falsifying records or stealing); Fraudulently completing that you have completed a degree from a college or university or some other specialized training; Not reporting a prior felony conviction if you are asked on the application about this

How can the above hurt your Workers Compensation claims?

Falsifying information on your job application and/or resume can also come back to haunt you should you be injured on the job and a Workers Compensation case results.  For instance, if you were injured on a prior job and did not disclose this, and then the same injury results on your new job, your employer can contest your claim if they find out that you have lied on the application.  Even if you are granted Workers Compensation benefits, the employer could fight this and challenge it.

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Source by Jodi Ginsberg

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