Wednesday, June 26, 2013

The Feds don't want Employeers to use criminal Background Checks when hiring because it's Racist

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 Americans. 
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. 
“Employers are unsettled over the EEOC’s questionable practices and its litigation tactics,” Kevin Connell, chairman of the Florida-based employment and tenant screening company AccuScreen.com, told FoxNews.com on Friday night. “I am fed up with the EEOC’s arrogance and their 'sue first, ask questions later' mentality. … The EEOC has already tried re-writing the rules that they are charged with enforcing, so we have the hiring police, the EEOC, writing, revising very confusing rules and regulations with their infamous (April 2012) update.”
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3 comments:

BOSMAN said...

So now they want employers to be sensitive to former criminals. I didn't know they'd become a protected class.

Unknown said...

This is a Right Wing wanta be think tank. You guys complain about blacks on welfare, and then when a black tries to work, but has an old felony that doesnt relate to the job, you don't want him working. CRAZY

Unknown said...

This store is as exactly as you hope it would be--posters, crates of records, tons of books and tchotchke that only that the fetishized initiated would truly appreciate. I was so glad that the staff were not awful angry hipsters. There were no noses turned higher than mine. Texas Criminal Background Check