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Perform Criminal Background Checks at Your Peril
Wall Street Journal ^ | February 14, 2013 | James Bovard

Posted on 02/16/2013 3:38:58 PM PST by a5478

The EEOC ignored that judicial thrashing and pressed on. Last April, the agency unveiled its "Enforcement Guidance on the Consideration of arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions," declaring that "criminal record exclusions have a disparate impact based on race and national origin."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: backgroundchecks; bmw; business; communist; criminalrecord; criminals; dollargeneral; economy; eeoc; facebook; obama; obamasfault; racism; regulations; taxbreaks
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To: goldstategop

I’ve employed felons. Even those involved with murder. I do accept help on a case by case nature.


21 posted on 02/16/2013 4:25:10 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?)
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To: goldstategop

If we give them a second chance, if they screw up again it should be automatic, instant execution!


22 posted on 02/16/2013 4:28:56 PM PST by dalereed
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23 posted on 02/16/2013 4:32:40 PM PST by narses
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24 posted on 02/16/2013 4:33:00 PM PST by narses
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25 posted on 02/16/2013 4:33:59 PM PST by narses
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To: goldstategop

maybe so but given the high unemployment rate and number of people looking for a job, it seems that businesses don’t need to take a chance on an ex-criminal.


26 posted on 02/16/2013 4:42:10 PM PST by plain talk
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To: Gen.Blather

My dad had such tests administered to potential employees seeking to work at a nuclear plant he managed.

He actually blocked the employment of two individuals who came highly recommended, all because both men tested were highly functioning psycopaths.


27 posted on 02/16/2013 4:47:40 PM PST by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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To: goldstategop

sometimes consequences are permanent. there should be jobs they can’t hold based on what they themselves did. hell, some people that don’t have records still can’t qualify for many, many jobs.


28 posted on 02/16/2013 4:48:57 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: goldstategop

yes but this country only works with moral people exercising their own self control, that’s why we have so many more criminals today than before. plus they executed far more troublemakers a lot quicker after sentencing so they couldn’ t continue to plague and terrorize the rest of society.


29 posted on 02/16/2013 4:51:33 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Fzob
The problem with your logic, like the mental condition on gun ownership, is that the bureaucratic definition will likely put murder/rapist on the same level as busted with a baggie.

I'm related to a guy who can't own a gun and can't vote, he's a nice kid, wouldn't hurt a fly or steal a pencil, but his logic and ability to shift responsibility haven't improved from 25 years ago.

PS: Is it racist to dump an employee who can't be bonded?

30 posted on 02/16/2013 5:01:32 PM PST by norton
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To: a5478
Ex-cons can be rated on their threat, and once this is done, there are some that are unemployable. But there is a possible solution of states teaming up to create an "ex-con reservation", in a rural part of a host state, for a price.

In essence, a low technology town where they can work to support themselves, and instead of getting individual handouts, they get them as a group, to save money.

The town government are what amounts to ombudsmen, to keep things flowing smoothly. And membership is based on good behavior. If you misbehave you get sent home. Most of what they do is to farm much of their own food.

But they are away from crime, alcohol and drugs, without the intense pressure of the "real world". In particular, a lot of convicts are getting out when they are older or elderly, so this also works as a semi-retirement home for them. But again, the bottom line is not for them, but to save taxpayer money.


31 posted on 02/16/2013 5:01:59 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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To: stansblugrassgrl

Our country is just too big for its own britches...


32 posted on 02/16/2013 5:05:53 PM PST by lyby ("Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ~ Galileo Galilei)
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To: a5478

I could be wrong, but I thought that when I was a child criminals had a record for 10 years and if they were clean during that time it was expunged from public records.


33 posted on 02/16/2013 5:32:51 PM PST by Bellflower (The LORD is Holy, separated from all sin, perfect, righteous, high and lifted up.)
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To: a5478

Aren’t credit score checks on prospective employees illegal now too?


34 posted on 02/16/2013 5:37:41 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: Gen.Blather

The testing seems a good idea, until some lawyers decide to take the employer to court because the test will have a disparate impact on some disadvantaged group. It adversely effects the stupid, or people that didn’t study or some minority, etc.


35 posted on 02/16/2013 5:44:26 PM PST by cyberstoic
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To: a5478
lets face it, the mutt in the white hut could NEVER pass a security clearance...
36 posted on 02/16/2013 6:01:02 PM 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: norton

Well, expecting logic or reason from a bureaucracy was not my expectation, so any attempt at a rational outcome regarding criminalizing real criminal actions is just a pipe dream.


37 posted on 02/16/2013 6:14:34 PM PST by Fzob (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

This will reek havoc on your liability insurance. I wonder if someone in this administration is getting paid off because of this reason. I know Obama likes to go after business, but the reality is he only goes after those who are small or not part of the club, i.e. bribing, hmmm... I mean campaign donations.


38 posted on 02/16/2013 6:39:27 PM PST by DarkWaters ("Deception is a state of mind --- and the mind of the state" --- James Jesus Angleton)
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To: Fzob; a5478

There is some truth to this, though the solution is less welfare, ending teen pregnancy and encouraging marriage.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/12/pettit_on_the_p.html


39 posted on 02/16/2013 7:23:48 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD

Some communities have been more crime-prone since before welfare and the breakdown of the family.


40 posted on 02/16/2013 8:03:07 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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