Very good point. If they are expunged, then the employer has no way of knowing who is clean and who is not. Then it becomes safer for them to not hire black people at all.
Right now, employers can generally only ask about convictions (and not arrests) since blacks are arrested disproportionately. However, if a conviction is expunged, a job applicant can legally say that he/she has never been convicted.
Sucks to be an employer.
Very good point. If they are expunged, then the employer has no way of knowing who is clean and who is not.All that I can say is that ANYONE hiring a black, under policies like this, should have their head examined. The economic damage of policies like this cannot be underestimated.After all, why not expunge sex offenders, so that they can get jobs back in where they like to work with their prey (i.e., schools, day care, etc.).
50 posted on 11/20/2010 11:22:15 PM PST by BobL
In fact, even if they only do this in Chicago, how do you then know if the black applicant is actually not himself from Chicago?The bottom line is that this conceit increases the cost of knowledge (as Thomas Sowell put it in Knowledge and Decisions). And that increases the risk of economic transactions. So those transactions become fewer.Ghastly idea.