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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
But if a company does that, and rejects all black applicants, then DOJ will be on 'em like a duck on a June bug. Even if they just reject more of them, without cause, than of other applicants, the EEOC will know, because they collect stats on that stuff.
That would create more gun owners, and you KNOW, The Won doesn't want that.
Good for you.
The same Courts that called the Obamacare fine, a tax, and ruled the whole sordid scheme an exercise of Congress' power to tax? Those courts?
Thanks very much. I’ll ping you the next time someone dumps on me. :o)
The Dallas police will conducting such checks on anyone who wants a ticket to the Kennedy Assassination Commemoration in Dealy Plaza.
Will that be discriminating against minorities? Someone needs to tell John Wiley Price.
City opens drawing for 5,000 tickets to 50th anniversary commemoration of JFK assassination
"Applicants will be checked for violent criminal history and extremist ties, said Dallas First Assistant Chief Charles Cato."
IOW, FReepers and Tea Party types need not apply.
Only 9 months? For me was 17. The only reason I got the (Temp) job I've been at for the last year was that I'd already had the BI in '06, one of many over the previous 40+ years, and it hadn't yet expired. The first being the one I had to pass to be admitted to the AF ROTC program.
What my company with did was to change to different contractors for outside contractors and temp help with new requirements for screening already in place. A company is responsible for every accident that a temp worker, outside contractor, and construction worker has on their property. Etc...
But the probability of having EEOC sue your ash would then become 100%.
BTTT means “Back to the Top” or Bump to the top. If you look at the forum/latest comments then the thread jumps back to the top. It’s basically a way of drawing attention to it, saying you agree with it, that kinda thing.
SO Obama is saying that blacks are more likely to be criminals than whites.
Is it just me? Or do our elected criminals have it totally ass-backwards again?
Just because the feds have no problem hiring felons, and private industry generally prefers not to, which one should change? Depends on whether you're sane or not.
Seems to me that the Feds should stop hiring criminals, not forcing private industry to do the same.Racism?
OK.
Can't they just invent a sham government where the crooks can do whatever they want, get their welfare checks and pretend they're working, but make sure nothing they do has any real world effect on anything.
Wouldn't we be a whole bunch better off?
That's not the way I read it. I see nothing to prevent you from making a background criminal check. Just that you may not refuse to hire on the results of that check. But...
You can then cover yourself by writing the EEOC informing them that you have a potential serious criminal, but you are not refusing to hire him/her/it only because the EEOC forbids you to do so.
Then, when you get sued...
No one has claimed that the EEOC is done with their policy/law making yet.
Just give them a few more days.
When they get to occupations that allow access to every part of my house (plumbers, painters, carpet layers, etc.,) I'm leaving the country, or be forced to be become a full time DIY-er.
The real madness is in the millions who love Big Brother.
Except that on this site, that ceased to work years ago. So it's a "memory reflex" to old timers. BTTT was a special case of posting "something," the current equivalent is "bookmark."
But that no longer puts the thread at the top of newly posted threads as it used to once upon a time. But it does allow you to find the thread again if you wish to see further posts on a thread of interest, using the "search" function, which still works.
Got it now; thanks.
Amazing that an entity that conducts background checks on all new hires - down to the lowliest clerk, will sue a business for doing the same.
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.”
How dare they refuse a felon! just dont hire a vet!
Affirmative action with a twist, if your black or hispanic, no background check for a record or work experience and you go to the front of the line ahead of everyone else with experience, schooling and work ethics. The’re deliberatley and purposely axing your kids out of the job market
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