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Target Removing Criminal History Section from Job Applications
Afro ^ | 11/1/13 | Alexis Taylor

Posted on 11/04/2013 8:19:16 AM PST by YourAdHere

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To: YourAdHere

I thought Obama signed that into law. ??


21 posted on 11/04/2013 8:42:02 AM PST by sarasota
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To: YourAdHere
We should ask these questions of all job applicants before they are employed, and of all politicians before they are allowed to take office.

(We know that Obama would have flunked)

Are you currently wanted by law enforcement for any criminal activity or as a suspect in any criminal activity?

Are you presently an escaped convict?

Are you part of a terrorist organization, do you support ant terrorist organizations or have you committed any acts of terrorism?

Are you currently engaged in any criminal or terrorist activity?

Are you legally present in the United States and legally eligible to be employed?

Do you advocate the overthrow of the US Constitution?

Who is the rightfull owner of the I.D. documents and the social security number you are currently using?


22 posted on 11/04/2013 8:42:04 AM PST by Iron Munro (When a killer screams 'Allahu Akbar' you don't need to be mystified about a motive.)
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To: Lazamataz

I’d qualify that by saying that the ban should only apply to large employers (1000+ employees). A small business that hires a former convict by accident could end up going bust, if that hire turns out badly. Large businesses have a certain amount of redundancy built in.


23 posted on 11/04/2013 8:44:28 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: YourAdHere

Article: “ A criminal record is a hold-back for folks who have found themselves involved with the justice system,”

A criminal record is a hold-back for folks who have been caught doing bad things.


24 posted on 11/04/2013 8:45:10 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

bump


25 posted on 11/04/2013 8:45:31 AM PST by GeronL
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To: TexasGator

Imagine Target hiring a child molesters for the children’s clothes section. That could end very badly.


26 posted on 11/04/2013 8:46:15 AM PST by GeronL
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27 posted on 11/04/2013 8:47:22 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: YourAdHere

Now I know where to NOT shop at Christmas. What makes these businesses think customers would be willing to hand over credit cards, debit cards, or checks to do business/make purchases? We may not be going to a cashless society as soon as people think.


28 posted on 11/04/2013 8:47:54 AM PST by madison10
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To: slumber1

From an Human Relations viewpoint, the difference is that the box forces the applicant to put the information down in black and white. If the background check does not corroborate the information provided in the box, then the human relations employee can deal with the situation from a position of power in the subsequent discussions / negotiations.


29 posted on 11/04/2013 8:51:28 AM PST by the_Watchman
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To: YourAdHere

Are they removing criminals from the emplpoyee roster?


30 posted on 11/04/2013 8:51:54 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/nicolae-hussein-obama/)
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To: clintonh8r

I haven’t shopped there in years, and I don’t think I’d feel safe shopping there now.


31 posted on 11/04/2013 8:53:23 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: clintonh8r
I have never shopped there and now I never will.

I hope you get convicted by the gestapo of some crime against progressivism and become permanently unemployable.

32 posted on 11/04/2013 8:53:50 AM PST by ClaytonP
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To: YourAdHere

Don’t ask a bunch of potential employees in a retail store about their criminal past.

What could go wrong??


33 posted on 11/04/2013 8:55:27 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: YourAdHere
no longer question applicants about their criminal history.
I don't agree with this at all, however, I've always had a problem with the - "Have you ever been arrested?" - question.
Getting arrested is not a crime. Being convicted is.
34 posted on 11/04/2013 8:56:08 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: YourAdHere

Back in the 70s, it was not only common to ask about “Arrest History” but other unnecessary and now-illegal things. A place I worked used a job application that asked: “Do you drink alcohol, and if so provide details”. Most people just wrote something like “Socially” or “a beer or two on the weekend”.

A few wrote things like “Budweiser” or “a glass of wine with dinner”.

But the funniest was a good looking gal who applied for a job who wrote a short paragraph similar to: “Usually just a few glasses of wine with friends, , but I prefer tequila shots when I’m on business trips with my boss and feeling especially lonely”.

Well played, but she didn’t get the job.


35 posted on 11/04/2013 8:58:05 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Lazamataz

Right on, kindred spirit.


36 posted on 11/04/2013 8:58:18 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: ClaytonP

Let us know when you’re out of rehab. Maybe you can get a job at Goodwill.....


37 posted on 11/04/2013 9:00:52 AM PST by clintonh8r (Don't twerk me, Bro!)
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To: ClaytonP

hope you get convicted by the gestapo of some crime against progressivism and become permanently unemployable....85% of all losses recorded by crime statistics in the retail section come from employees. So you want to pay for all these miscreants? I don’t understand your post(?). Please elucidate.


38 posted on 11/04/2013 9:02:53 AM PST by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: YourAdHere

Necrophilic pedophiles working to the toy section of Target or playing Santa Claus there?


39 posted on 11/04/2013 9:03:11 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: GeronL

The workforce in retail is 85% female. You do have an obligation to look after the safety of your employees. By, for example, not hiring a paroled rapist.


40 posted on 11/04/2013 9:11:37 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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