Apparently politicians are looking for a leg up in their future career changes.
Just another reason to have a business in NY. What a bunch of idiots.
Meanwhile law abiding citizens have to submit to background checks if they are thinking about buying a firearm.
Doesn’t make a difference. Anybody can do a criminal background check on anybody else. For no reason at all, no one would know.
“Good plan: protect criminals and criminalize business (rolleyes)”
I have mixed feelings about this... And as someone who has never done anything wrong, I think I can speak to this. /s
Seriously, all of us have broken the law. Some have been caught and some of us have not. (yet) If a person has been caught and has paid “his debt to society”, why should it be an issue? If he hasn’t, then why is he still not in jail?
Just asking...
I worked at a background screening company. There is nothing worse than coming across a murder conviction, assault with a deadly weapon or rape conviction from twenty years ago that the person thought wouldn’t be discovered. And believe me, people lie, change their names umpteen times thinking the system can’t catch them and you wouldn’t believe the crimes they think they shouldn’t be held accountable for as ‘they paid their dues’ with a hardcore prison term.
God help the people of Syracuse. It will take the molestation and murder of a child by a convicted pedophile whose background wasn’t vetted properly as a result of this insaneness to right the ship.
I can tell you as a payroll and HR professional that the majority of employers do not run criminal background checks on applicants until they are ready to make a job offer or have made a “conditional” job offer. Why? Because it is way too expensive to do so for each and every applicant who comes through the door and is unnecessary. They may ask the question on the application and we do for hourly, non-professional positions, but for professional positions that come in as resumes or through agencies (headhunters), we don’t have the applicant even fill out an application or sign the authorization for a background check until at least after the 1st and more often the 2nd interview when we are ready to make a job offer.
And we weigh what the applicant puts on their application, which they sign and attest to being true against what comes in on the background check – lie on your application and you’re out. But a prior conviction is not automatically a no-go depending on the type, how long ago it was and the type of position for which we are hiring.
Say for instance someone applying for a manufacturing job had a DWI or simple assault 25 years ago but has had no subsequent DWI’s or assaults or anything else on their record come up, we may still hire that person. OTHO, if someone had a recent conviction for say embezzlement and was applying for a position in accounting – well, probably not.
There are two simple fixes to improve convict employment opportunities:
1. eliminate the minimum wage (conservatives should propose this just for convicts - like a mini-free trade zone it would disrupt the urban Dem machines control and soon all urban unemployed would ask for the same) Just call it a training wage or a proving wage or something and give it a 12 month life, unless extended by the employee.
2. indemnify corporations for the criminal acts of ex-cons committed while employed by the company.