Felons: The new protected class for Obama's EEOC

[VMI77]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... RDS=bovard

Liberalism means embracing your psychopathology.

If a background check discloses a criminal offense, the EEOC expects a company to do an intricate "individualized assessment" that will somehow prove that it has a "business necessity" not to hire the ex-offender (or that his offense disqualifies him for a specific job). Former EEOC General Counsel Donald Livingston, in testimony in December to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, warned that employers could be considered guilty of "race discrimination if they choose law abiding applicants over applicants with criminal convictions" unless they conduct a comprehensive analysis of the ex-offender's recent life history.

It is difficult to overstate the EEOC's zealotry on this issue. The agency is demanding that one of Mr. Livingston's clients—the Freeman Companies, a convention and corporate events planner—pay compensation to rejected job applicants who lied about their criminal records.

The biggest bombshell in the new guidelines is that businesses complying with state or local laws that require employee background checks can still be targeted for EEOC lawsuits. This is a key issue in a case the EEOC commenced in 2010 against G4S Secure Solutions after the company refused to hire a twice-convicted Pennsylvania thief as a security guard.

[Andrew]

The EEOCs position is so laughable, the WSJ piece almost reads as satire. What's next, EEOC imposed quotas for TSA screeners? After all G4S is the former Wackenhut that provided security at many U.S. airports.

[sjfcontrol]

The world has gone insane. Or...

To quote a former president of the NRA... "It's a madhouse! A madhouse!"

[rm9792]

When did felony status become a race???

[Jumping Frog]

When did felony status become a race???

The feds position is African-Americans are convicted of felonies at a far higher rate than Caucasians, so if a company will not hire felons they will reject a higher percentage of African-Americans.

Of course, if African-Americans have a greater probability of being convicted felons, then that means they cannot pass the NICS check to buy a firearm. Thus, by their logic, we should also eliminate Form 4473's and NICS checks because they are "racist".

[mr surveyor]

When did felony status become a race???

The feds position is African-Americans are convicted of felonies at a far higher rate than Caucasians, so if a company will not hire felons they will reject a higher percentage of African-Americans.

Of course, if African-Americans have a greater probability of being convicted felons, then that means they cannot pass the NICS check to buy a firearm. Thus, by their logic, we should also eliminate Form 4473's and NICS checks because they are "racist".

now, that's good logic!

[RX8er]

When did felony status become a race???

The feds position is African-Americans are convicted of felonies at a far higher rate than Caucasians, so if a company will not hire felons they will reject a higher percentage of African-Americans.

Of course, if African-Americans have a greater probability of being convicted felons, then that means they cannot pass the NICS check to buy a firearm. Thus, by their logic, we should also eliminate Form 4473's and NICS checks because they are "racist".

now, that's good logic!

Jumping Frog has been spending time on at http://liberallogic101.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; "Helping those of us with brains understand how Liberal Logic works"

[Jumping Frog]

Jumping Frog has been spending time on at http://liberallogic101.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; "Helping those of us with brains understand how Liberal Logic works"

Never heard of the website.

But I have been studying the enemy for decades.

[RPBrown]

Tere is no such thing as liberal logic. There is no logic in anything they do.

[ELB]

And of course the real kicker to the EEOC's "regulation" is that it will not protect employers from lawsuits by people injured, killed, or otherwise victimized by one of those employee-felons - the fact that the company hired them knowing about their convictions will count against them at lawsuit time.

[bagman45]

OK, so you all remember learning about the "Socratic method" and logic in school. Let's stretch it a bit and apply it to the liberal mindset: All cats die; Socrates is dead; therefore, Socrates was a cat......

[sjfcontrol]

OK, so you all remember learning about the "Socratic method" and logic in school. Let's stretch it a bit and apply it to the liberal mindset: All cats die; Socrates is dead; therefore, Socrates was a cat......

Actually, the jury is still out on Schrodinger's.

[RottenApple]

Actually, the jury is still out on Schrodinger's.

[bagman45]

[smtimelevi]

When did felony status become a race???

The feds position is African-Americans are convicted of felonies at a far higher rate than Caucasians, so if a company will not hire felons they will reject a higher percentage of African-Americans.

Of course, if African-Americans have a greater probability of being convicted felons, then that means they cannot pass the NICS check to buy a firearm. Thus, by their logic, we should also eliminate Form 4473's and NICS checks because they are "racist".

4473 does specificly ask for race...