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EEOC says using criminal background checks on new hires might be racist
jackson jambalaya ^ | Feburary 16, 2013 | Kingfish

Posted on 02/16/2013 11:12:36 AM PST by prplhze2000

EEOC now considers the widespread use of criminal background checks to hire employees as having a "disparate impact" on minorities. Going to harass employers more over them.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics
KEYWORDS: eeoc

1 posted on 02/16/2013 11:12:42 AM PST by prplhze2000
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To: prplhze2000

The EEOC is the most racist hate group out there. Be careful when dealing with those racists.


2 posted on 02/16/2013 11:15:06 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Now Playing. Obama II - The Revenge of My Father.)
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To: prplhze2000

This is ABSURD.

Sure some jobs you might or might not want to take into account certain qualifications, but to bar the information is beyond ridiculous.

No go. Period.


3 posted on 02/16/2013 11:15:23 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: prplhze2000
And what happens to the EEOC if that new hire commits some kind of crime and a background check would have shown proclivity.

Wonder if the EEOC could be held responsible?

4 posted on 02/16/2013 11:17:35 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: prplhze2000

“This is going on your permanent record” apparently doesn’t mean much anymore.

Ask these job applicants why they were concerned about the election eve release of information about GW Bush’s arrest for a DWI charge decades prior to his applying for the job as POTUS?

It measurably cost Bush votes and he only lost the “Al Gore ‘I SHOULD BE YOR’ PRESIDENT!!’ Popular Vote” by 0.51% (half a percent).


5 posted on 02/16/2013 11:18:50 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Sorry, but this crap is already here. You cannot ask questions about arrest records, only felonies. Of course, most bad folks plea most of their convictions to lesser offenses. Then you end up hiring someone that cannot get a clearance or enter a secured facility. Just a bunch of crap. This is why the unemployment rate is more than 10% in DC. About 20% to 30% are functinally unemployable for any kind of cleared position or position that requires rudimental communication skills or college.


6 posted on 02/16/2013 11:22:25 AM PST by fuente
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To: fuente

Your post is what the EOOC wants to change: They want felons to get clearances and for businesses to lower their standards to the typical education level of a black or hispanic high-school dropout.

Of course, those same EEOC racists will demand proper and competent service when they engage a business in their personal lives, but God help businesses if they have standards to try to obtain that level of service.


7 posted on 02/16/2013 11:26:12 AM PST by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
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To: prplhze2000

A service plumber can go to a 10 million dollar home and be given a list of things that need to be done, and told that there is coffee and cookies in the kitchen and to lock the door when he leaves. A background check isn’t just to stop the guys who will blatantly steal, but also one who might do impulse stealing, pilfering.

Aside from the normal crime problems of casing a home and other serious burglar issues, a home like that has many normal trinkets just laying around like any other house does, Rolex watches, valuable knick knacks, cool collectibles, etc, it would be nice to be able to know who you are hiring before sending your guy to people’s homes.

America has millions of service people sent into the homes, the homes where the women and children live.


8 posted on 02/16/2013 11:27:24 AM PST by ansel12 (Romney is a longtime supporter of homosexualizing the Boy Scouts (and the military).)
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To: prplhze2000

Again, the Left admits that mostly blacks commit crime. We need to keep pointing this out.


9 posted on 02/16/2013 11:30:17 AM PST by Amberdawn
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To: fuente

I don’t have a problem with barring arrests. In my state, disorderly conduct is the BS charge the cops use when they can’t think of anything else. Why should you be penalized when you are never convicted?


10 posted on 02/16/2013 11:37:30 AM PST by prplhze2000
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come on, the mutt in the white hut could NEVER pass a security clearance yet it has access to nuclear weapons... so how bad can it be for a gasoline truck driver with two DWI convictions or preschool teacher with a child molestation conviction be???
11 posted on 02/16/2013 11:37:59 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: prplhze2000

Betcha the EEOC feels the same way about universal background checks for buying firearms. You watch—as soon as it’s made mandatory, the government will start issuing waivers for certain favored minorities.


12 posted on 02/16/2013 11:40:15 AM PST by American Quilter (I will succeed despite the liberals.)
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At one time being the hiring manager... I used to visit the local county jailhouse websites that listed persons jailed at one time...

Out of say 50 applications, I'd screen them down to the top ten applications for the position I was looking for and check their "local criminal history" on the county jail websites

Amazing what you would find...

13 posted on 02/16/2013 11:54:00 AM PST by Popman
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To: fuente
You cannot ask questions about arrest records, only felonies.

True, but you can tell them:
"We as company policy run criminal background checks after we hire someone and do I need to know anything that would prevent us from permanently hiring you if we decide to offer you a position"...You will be on a 90 probation period...

"I simply do not want to waste your job searching time"...

14 posted on 02/16/2013 12:00:46 PM PST by Popman
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To: FlingWingFlyer
This is great news for child molesters who want to work in day care centers or drive school buses! Or how about embezzlers who want bank management jobs?
15 posted on 02/16/2013 12:02:09 PM PST by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the alter of "gun free zones"?)
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To: prplhze2000

Ha! THEY took care of the problem before it was diagnosed as a problem.

Those douches in DC have ruined this economy to such an extent, along with our business, that we’re no longer hiring any one.

Bwaahaahaahaa!


16 posted on 02/16/2013 12:15:02 PM PST by x1stcav (Man up! We're all going to have to become Samuel Whittemores.)
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To: prplhze2000

This policy is a direct effort to bring the large number of black criminals into the new master class. One must give them jobs, allow them to vote and worse. By bringing in new members of the conquering class that class further consolidates its ongoing conquest.


17 posted on 02/16/2013 12:22:54 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: prplhze2000
Here is a suggestion: put in the job requirements that any applicant most show proof he or she is registered to vote at the address supplied in the application form. Let the Elections Commissions weed out the people who are felons who have not completely served their time. Also it weeds out non-citizens (allegedly).

"We actively encourage all employees to be voters -- the freedom we enjoy in this country says we need every voice at election time."

When the EEOC says "that's discrimination" one just needs to point to the Department of Justice and say "no, it can't be discrimination because the DoJ says every eligible person needs to be able to register to vote. That means if they want to work at our company they need to do their civic duty. If they don't register, that's the decision of the individual."

For those people who don't register to vote to avoid jury duty, the company should have a policy of supporting the employee during any jury duty call.

Time to fight fire with fire.

18 posted on 02/16/2013 12:35:51 PM PST by asinclair (B*llshit is a renewable resource.)
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To: prplhze2000

They sure have changed.


19 posted on 02/16/2013 12:38:40 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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