The Biden admin is socially engineering your workplace

The Spectator World ^ | 05/15/2024 | Amber Duke

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Do you currently enjoy a workplace environment that is free of violent criminals? Is your work bathroom reserved for members of the same sex as you? You might not enjoy those commonsense benefits for much longer. The Biden administration is flexing the bureaucratic state’s muscle to force businesses to comply with its progressive worldview.

Last month, the Biden administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced that it was suing Sheetz, a popular gas station and convenience store chain in the mid-Atlantic, for alleged racially discriminatory hiring practices.

Sheetz is a great American success story. It was opened by Bob Sheetz in 1950 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and is still owned by the Sheetz family to this day. It is most aptly compared to Wawa but, as a native Marylander, I can confirm that Sheetz is way better. I have fond memories of hitting Sheetz for subs after all-day track meets in high school or eating mozzarella sticks in the parking lot while waiting to hear whose house the party was at that night. It is an institution in this area.

So why is the Biden administration accusing Sheetz of racism? Because they won’t hire convicted criminals. Seriously.

According to the EEOC lawsuit, Sheetz racially discriminates in its hiring practices because they make decisions about whom to hire based on criminal background checks.

“Sheetz has maintained a longstanding practice of screening all job applicants for records of criminal conviction and then denying them employment based on those records,” a statement from the EEOC says. “The EEOC charges that Sheetz’s hiring practices disproportionately screened out black, Native American/Alaska Native and multiracial applicants.”

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The EEOC doesn’t accuse Sheetz of making decisions based on race, but says that because Sheetz’s method of screening out certain applicants with a criminal background has a “disparate impact” on racial minorities, it violates Title VII.

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Here are the details:

Sheetz’s website notes that they are an equal opportunity employer, which means they don’t automatically filter out all job candidates who have a criminal history. Instead, they make a case-by-case decision based on the details of each candidate’s criminal background. Their exact screening processes are not public, but let’s think like a business owner for a moment.

You might be willing to hire people who have been charged with misdemeanors or non-violent crimes, or you may be willing to give a second chance to someone who only has one previous offense. But you’d probably draw a red line at violent or repeat offenders. Well, racial minorities are not only disproportionately more likely to commit all forms of crime; they are also disproportionately more likely to be violent offenders and have higher rates of recidivism.

FBI statistics even indicate that blacks commit a larger share of white-collar crime than their population would suggest.

Plus, as James Bovard points out in the New York Post, the gap between whites and blacks who fail Sheetz’s background check is actually smaller than the gap between incarceration rates for these two groups. Is that not proof that Sheetz is in fact making racially progressive hiring decisions?

You will hire criminals and you will like it, says the EEOC.

[Alberta's Child]

So Biden’s EEOC is telling me that black people are more likely to be criminals than white people.

Thanks, Joe. I will proceed accordingly.

[blackdog]

Yes, which is why I retired. Find someone to work on live circuits these days! Good luck. Every issue must wait for a planned “Cold Outage” now. So nothing ever gets done. 40% of the production lines sit idle. The steam boilers now have to pop-off excess steam pressure about every 20 minutes due to idle machinery,inoperable due to electrical and maintenance failures where nobody can perform the needed work safely while circuits are energized. They refuse to teach that in trades schools now.

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Do you currently enjoy a workplace environment that is free of violent criminals?

Yep, and that's not going to change because of the type of company I work for.

[curious7]

That whole ‘disparate impact’ nonsense is right up there with the penumbras for a right to abortion, and needs to be revisited by SCOTUS with the ‘somewhat’ sane makeup it currently has. Disparate impact as a sign of discrimination is totally bogus.

[ridesthemiles]

MY workplace is my home.

I use my own desk

My own bathroom

My own pens/pencils/paper/erasers

Has been that way for 44 years.

Would NOT go back to AN OFFICE for $1000 an hour tax free.

MY dog is better company.

My horse expects to be fed 3 times a day. HE nickers at me to say hello, also.

[sauropod]

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