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If you are criminal no matter who you are you are not worth the risk of hiring.
Criminals make choices, business make choices not to hire a scumbag.
White, green, yellow, brown, blue, black or rainbow it does not matter.
For me I never hired anyone with a criminal background, anyone who smoked, anyone who was fired from a job without some very good references of good work in the past year or more.
Being white during the 80's and 90's put up barriers for many talent whites but no one spoke about it.
In some cases yes and in some cases no. The biggest reason most people wind up back in prison is that can't find legal employment.
The whole issue is non-starter. Some places will not hire people with felonies or serious misdemeanors. Some places have hiring biases when it comes to race (but YOU already knew that).
The people that are advocating no criminal checks are operating under the wrong premise. What they should be doing to is outreach to young people and letting them know how having a criminal record negatively affects their future prospects.
As has been demonstrated, not having a criminal record hardly helps black job applicants. Statistically, it would be better to be white with a criminal record than to be black under any circumstance.
Dunno how other minority groups fare.
It's like a drug test, Hoarfrost. The lab doesn't give a rat's ass what color the person is who submitted the urine.
If you fail, you fail.
If you chose to lead a criminal life, and have a record, an employer has the right to know that. A background check doesn't create discrimination; the thug who engaged in the behavior created his own situation.
In some cases yes and in some cases no. The biggest reason most people wind up back in prison is that can't find legal employment.
The whole issue is non-starter. Some places will not hire people with felonies or serious misdemeanors. Some places have hiring biases when it comes to race (but YOU already knew that).
The people that are advocating no criminal checks are operating under the wrong premise. What they should be doing to is outreach to young people and letting them know how having a criminal record negatively affects their future prospects.
Ummmm . . . like there is really someone somewhere in this country who doesn't realize that holding up the local Handy Pantry isn't gonna get them a record?
Shouldn't be any business of the government how a private business screens it's prospective employees.
Last edited by Frank DeForrest; 08-03-2011 at 07:32 AM..
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