Can Employers Automatically Exclude Job Applicants with Criminal Records?
By Lester Rosen, President of ESR From the ESR Mail Box Question: Can an employer automatically exclude an applicant with a felony or criminal record? What about automated processes that use a system to identity applicants with a criminal record? Answer: The one thing that an employer can be advised with some certainty is that any sort of automatic policy based [...]
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EEOC Warns Employers of Increase in Discrimination Lawsuits Based on Background Checks
By Thomas Ahearn, ESR Staff Writer As a recently filed lawsuit alleging one of the largest management consulting firms in the world conducted discriminatory background checks against African-Americans and Latinos shows, employers need to fully understand the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) policies regarding the use of background checks during the pre-employment screening process – [...]
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Discrimination Lawsuit Shows Importance of Employer Policy on the Use of Criminal Records During Background Checks
By Thomas Ahearn, ESR Staff Writer A recently filed class action lawsuit – which alleges that one of the largest management consulting firms in the world conducted background checks that discriminated against African-Americans and Latinos – underscores the importance of employers understanding the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) policy regarding the use of criminal records [...]
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The Unfair Use of Credit Reports and Criminal Records and the EEOC E-Race Initiative
According to an article in HR Morning, the two biggest headaches for employers when it comes to hiring are the blanket exclusion of individuals with poor credit histories or a criminal, record, and not showing a correlation between background checks and the job itself. The author notes that in response to seeing an increase in claims of [...]
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New EEOC lawsuit for discrimination based on credit report and criminal records
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced on October 1, 2009 that they have filed a lawsuit against Freeman, a firm that offers nationwide convention services, on the basis that it used credit reports and criminal records to unfairly discriminate against black, Hispanic and male job applicants. This case has the potential to have a [...]
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