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U.S. Puts Limits On Employee Background Checks To Protect Minorities
AOL.com ^ | 4/26/12 | AP

Posted on 04/26/2012 4:28:02 PM PDT by ColdOne

WASHINGTON -- Is an arrest in a barroom brawl 20 years ago a job disqualifier? Not necessarily, the government said Wednesday in new guidelines on how employers can avoid running afoul of laws prohibiting job discrimination.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's updated policy on criminal background checks is part of an effort to rein in practices that can limit job opportunities for minorities that have higher arrest and conviction rates than whites.

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1 posted on 04/26/2012 4:28:04 PM PDT by ColdOne
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's updated policy on criminal background checks is part of an effort to rein in practices that can limit job opportunities for minorities that have higher arrest and conviction rates than whites.

What a racist thing to say....

2 posted on 04/26/2012 4:30:06 PM PDT by TheDon (The Democrat Party, the party of the KKK (tm))
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To: ColdOne

Bad, bad; thanks for the information.


3 posted on 04/26/2012 4:30:06 PM PDT by Ace's Dad (Reagan Contra; in-country off the USS Racine.)
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To: ColdOne

Islamic terrorist ‘soldiers’ infiltrating the USofA are the ones this communist/Islamic administration are trying to protect. The sooner Americans realize this current administration is working for the Muslim conquering of the West, the sooner we can clean the house of the filth. It may already be too late, because the vermin media are too well entrenched in shaping the thinking of the sheeple. ... And no one is oiling the guillotines


4 posted on 04/26/2012 4:34:15 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: ColdOne
Is an arrest in a barroom brawl 20 years ago a job disqualifier?

That is for the prospective employer to decide.

5 posted on 04/26/2012 4:35:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: ColdOne

If there is a federally regulated “blank” in a job seekers record, the Human Resources manager need only ask the applicant what happened during that “blank.”

Nobody is going to hire a blank slate—better to employ an honest bad person trying to be better.

This policy is also intended to build resentment in minorities of color.


6 posted on 04/26/2012 4:37:43 PM PDT by Happy Rain ("Not all Democrats are Bums but all Bums are Democrats".)
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To: ColdOne
The Obama administration is saying that minorities are most likely to have commuted a crime.

Fits with Jessie Jackson's assessment as well:

''There is nothing more painful for me at this stage in my life,'' Jesse Jackson said several years ago, ''than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery -- and then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.''

The Color of Suspicion
Published: June 20, 1999
(Page 5 of 20)
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/20/magazine/the-color-of-suspicion.html?pagewanted=5

7 posted on 04/26/2012 4:38:00 PM PDT by NoLibZone (I'm with Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney - Anybody but Obama, because I trust their judgment.)
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To: ColdOne

W.

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8 posted on 04/26/2012 4:38:38 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Happy Rain

Most of the stuff that government does when fiddling in the private sphere with good intentions, backfires in unforeseen consequences.

Online presence is a bigger worry for a lot of people. A few goofy remarks on Facebook and the hapless job seeker will never know what hit him (or passed over him).


9 posted on 04/26/2012 4:41:00 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: ColdOne
All other standards everywhere else have been so lowered so that Blacks qualify...WHY NOT.

Go to a government office these days and try to get a Black person to help you. Good luck.

BTW, this (lowering the standards) started 45 years ago with schoool teachers and school integration.

Now you have to hire 'X' number of unqualified Blacks even when there are other qualified people available.

Hard work, dedication, and achievement no longer matter.

10 posted on 04/26/2012 4:45:54 PM PDT by blam
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To: ColdOne
"The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's updated policy on criminal background checks is part of an effort to rein in practices that can limit job opportunities for minorities that have higher arrest and conviction rates than whites."

Or the employer could just do more hiring for factory positions in China and India and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission can pound sand. Then they can say they'll hire all the minority Ph.D.s and engineers in their field that they can find.

The strategy seems to work for Apple Computer. Why would any employer in their right mind want to deal with this?

11 posted on 04/26/2012 4:46:43 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: Happy Rain
"Nobody is going to hire a blank slate..."

Have you looked in the Oval Office lately?

12 posted on 04/26/2012 4:49:09 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Driving the economy and business down into the dump is their clear objective -— and it increases dependence on government handouts (and thusly they believe more people will vote for them). Almost nobody is hiring already today, due in large measure to the impending Obamacare mandates and other tax increases they have scheduled on horizon. Being unable to ascertain if the job applicant is a mass murderer or serial rapist is yet a further barrier to hiring - as no responsible employer will take such people into their places of business. More and more unemployment, worse and worser economy... America wake up or go down the toilet. Vote in November! Campaign and vote! Please don’t sit it out. We tried that last time and look what happened to our country. Thank you.


13 posted on 04/26/2012 4:50:49 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (why is illicit sex good politically for only one party's politicians?)
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To: Joe 6-pack
Please, I don't like to underestimate the intelligence of the American public—so let us call 2008 an enigmatic fluke or else all hope is indeed lost.
14 posted on 04/26/2012 4:56:29 PM PDT by Happy Rain ("Not all Democrats are Bums but all Bums are Democrats".)
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To: ColdOne

so now, if an employer cares about arrest records they’ll have to base decisions on the group a potential employee belongs too (e.g. race) rather than the background of the specific employee they are interviewing? And the people ordering these limits are admitting that some groups of people have higher arrest records than others. Either their motives aren’t what they claim, or they aren’t thinking (my guess is that they aren’t thinking)


15 posted on 04/26/2012 4:56:38 PM PDT by LostPassword
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To: BenLurkin

“That is for the prospective employer to decide.”

Not in Obama’s America.


16 posted on 04/26/2012 5:01:55 PM PDT by Gator113 (***YOU GAVE it to Obama. I would have voted for NEWT.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: ColdOne

SOLUTION: Just “Circular File” all applicants with Afrocentric names. The drug screen will take care of the rest.


17 posted on 04/26/2012 5:02:07 PM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: ColdOne

part of an effort to rein in practices that can limit job opportunities for minorities that have higher arrest and conviction rates than whites.

Well duh. That’s the whole point of background checks. It’s easier to keep them out beforehand than it is to get rid of them after they repeatedly eff up on the job


18 posted on 04/26/2012 5:02:49 PM PDT by Figment
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To: ColdOne
U.S. Puts Limits On Employee Background Checks To Protect Minorities

How about protecting us?

19 posted on 04/26/2012 5:05:17 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Joe 6-pack

Best retort on FR, ever!


20 posted on 04/26/2012 5:06:39 PM PDT by Gator113 (***YOU GAVE it to Obama. I would have voted for NEWT.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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