Posted on 06/11/2016 11:27:53 AM PDT by BBell
BATON ROUGE — State employers will soon evaluate job applicants based on skills and interview conversations, not a checkmark.
Gov. John Bel Edwards signed the "ban the box" legislation into law Monday to block state employers from asking about job applicants' criminal histories before interviews.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
“About that 10 year gap since your last job, Mr. Smith...”
Placing evil people in the highest levels of government bureaucracy. What could go wrong?
Epic.
Can employers still do background checks without the applicant giving permission?
Reverend Jim Ignatowski: Hasn't everyone?
There are numerous ways to get around illegal questions.
Google is notorious for age discrimination. How did they do it?
By looking at your graduation date (high school and/or college).
Graduated before a certain date, and your resume went in the trash.
By looking at your graduation date (high school and/or college).
Graduated before a certain date, and your resume went in the trash.
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I tried to enroll in some bible courses on line, from Liberty University. Their pull down menu didn’t go back to 1963. Another problem was they wanted to know the name of the high school I graduated from, I could give them that easily. Problem is that high school doesn’t exist any more.
It's called "Freedom". People ought to try it out sometime.
Vote Trump!
What do you expect in a country with the Dear Leader using a Connecticut SS number and does not have a birth certificate?
“Stripes”, wasn’t it?
I can assure you this free pass is only for blacks and hispanics
If you are a man, thanks anyway.
That reminds me ..... neighbor lady is supposed to wash my car for me today..... thanks !
So If I know that blacks are more likely to be felons, but I cannot check if they are a felon, does it make it more or less likely that I will hire a black candidate?
I would seriously make the case that it makes it less likely a black candidate would get hired because why take the chance if I can’t check?
The way I read it they don’t have to check a box saying that they have a criminal history but you can still check to see if they have one before you make a hiring decision.
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So that makes it a moot point. Because if they weren’t checking before, they will now.
It’s a “feel good” action-—no more,no less.
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It’s now 24 states.
“There are a total of 24 states representing nearly every region of the country that have adopted the policies —California (2013, 2010), Colorado (2012), Connecticut (2010), Delaware (2014), Georgia (2015), Hawaii (1998), Illinois (2014, 2013), Louisiana (2016), Maryland (2013), Massachusetts (2010), Minnesota (2013, 2009), Missouri (2016), Nebraska (2014), New Jersey (2014), New Mexico (2010), New York (2015), Ohio (2015), Oklahoma (2016), Oregon (2015), Rhode Island (2013), Tennessee (2016), Vermont (2015, 2016), Virginia (2015), and Wisconsin (2016). Nine states—Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont—have removed the conviction history question on job applications for private employers, which advocates embrace as the next step in the evolution of these policies.”
http://nelp.org/publication/ban-the-box-fair-chance-hiring-state-and-local-guide/
That’s about it.
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