Posted on 05/15/2024 10:21:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Do you currently enjoy a workplace environment that is free of violent criminals? Is your work bathroom reserved for members of the same sex as you? You might not enjoy those commonsense benefits for much longer. The Biden administration is flexing the bureaucratic state’s muscle to force businesses to comply with its progressive worldview.
Last month, the Biden administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced that it was suing Sheetz, a popular gas station and convenience store chain in the mid-Atlantic, for alleged racially discriminatory hiring practices.
Sheetz is a great American success story. It was opened by Bob Sheetz in 1950 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and is still owned by the Sheetz family to this day. It is most aptly compared to Wawa but, as a native Marylander, I can confirm that Sheetz is way better. I have fond memories of hitting Sheetz for subs after all-day track meets in high school or eating mozzarella sticks in the parking lot while waiting to hear whose house the party was at that night. It is an institution in this area.
So why is the Biden administration accusing Sheetz of racism? Because they won’t hire convicted criminals. Seriously.
According to the EEOC lawsuit, Sheetz racially discriminates in its hiring practices because they make decisions about whom to hire based on criminal background checks.
“Sheetz has maintained a longstanding practice of screening all job applicants for records of criminal conviction and then denying them employment based on those records,” a statement from the EEOC says. “The EEOC charges that Sheetz’s hiring practices disproportionately screened out black, Native American/Alaska Native and multiracial applicants.”
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Thanks, Joe. I will proceed accordingly.
Yes, which is why I retired. Find someone to work on live circuits these days! Good luck. Every issue must wait for a planned “Cold Outage” now. So nothing ever gets done. 40% of the production lines sit idle. The steam boilers now have to pop-off excess steam pressure about every 20 minutes due to idle machinery,inoperable due to electrical and maintenance failures where nobody can perform the needed work safely while circuits are energized. They refuse to teach that in trades schools now.
Yep, and that's not going to change because of the type of company I work for.
That whole ‘disparate impact’ nonsense is right up there with the penumbras for a right to abortion, and needs to be revisited by SCOTUS with the ‘somewhat’ sane makeup it currently has. Disparate impact as a sign of discrimination is totally bogus.
MY workplace is my home.
I use my own desk
My own bathroom
My own pens/pencils/paper/erasers
Has been that way for 44 years.
Would NOT go back to AN OFFICE for $1000 an hour tax free.
MY dog is better company.
My horse expects to be fed 3 times a day. HE nickers at me to say hello, also.
Bkmk
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