Posted on 06/22/2013 2:35:08 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The Obama Administration sued Dollar General for using background checks on job applications because it’s racist. It’s now unlawful to discriminate against applicants who have committed a crime.
The Obama administration is suing Dollar General and a BMW facility in South Carolina for the alleged unfair use of criminal background checks for job applicants, months after warning companies about how such screenings can discriminate against African Americas.
The suits were filed June 11 by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which last year issued new guidelines that cautioned against rejecting minority applicants who have committed a crime and recommended businesses eliminate policies that “exclude people from employment based on a criminal record.”
The suits have re-ignited concerns over such issues as potential federal overreach, the overlap of state and federal law and companies losing their rights to protect customers, workers and assets while trying to adhere to fair hiring practices.
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If tens of thousands say no, we've had enough of this madness?
ALL FBI JOB CANDIDATES UNDERGO A BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION
Planned Parenthood runs a criminal background check on all volunteers.
The best court argument is that by forcing companies to hire ex-felons, the executive branch is diminishing the authority of the judicial branch.
Already the judiciary is constrained by sentencing guidelines and mandatory minimum sentences; but this weakens them from the other direction, that criminal sentences are effectively reduced from the judges’ discretion.
Likewise it can be argued that ex-cons on parole or probation must be offered jobs in positions of authority; or even the extreme, that prison is no barrier to employment, so that prisoners can mail in resumes while incarcerated, and employers must consider them, as if they were handicapped and incapacitated at home.
This being said, if the purpose of judges is further reduced, what purpose do judges serve? Punishments can be ordered against individuals by bureaucrats, and nobody can hold it against the criminal as punishment after.
No silly it’s their rules your playing by. Just like it is unconstitutional to drug test welfare recipients and law makers or regulators, but it’s constitutionally ok to test the folks paying for it.
I’d surmise background checks for hiring is a direct violation of directive 10-289, although I could not cite you which specific clause is involved.
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Can’t someone with paint shop superimpose Dr.Kavorkians face on the DHS secretary. It looks like a good fit.
Then why is a background check for firearm purchase legal?
EEOC’s policy a “Catch 22.” Employers “must either hire criminals or risk an EEOC investigation and class action lawsuit.”
>>If we can find one with a spine.
Might as well wish for one with wings, eyeballs that shoot laser beams, and a never-ending supply of delicious bacon!
The Ice Queen... no heart; no soul!
Commies love crime. It destroys society faster. I would not be surprised to find they begin waiving background checks for those who work with disabled, etc..
Exactly
Solution, toss ALL minority applications into the circle file and assume they All are criminals. So no checks needed.
And when the AA hires screw up, steal from you, or rape your customers will the “justice” department help you?
This is about destroying business.
The next (illogical) step will be people applying for jobs and volunteering their record.That will be deemed as giving themselves an unfair advantage and also outlawed. This can get pretty stupid pretty fast.
It looks like Dollar General hasn’t been hiring enough of Holder’s “people” with criminal records.
Your tag line is the best that I have seen in a long time!
Good stuff there.
Join a Gun Club and you can bet there will be a background check. The blacks have given the word “discriminate” a negative meaning. Those who are indiscriminate, I do not care to associate with.
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