The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s recommendation, in its guidance to employers, regarding criminal background checks, to not ask about criminal convictions on employment applications, continues to snowball through state and local courts across the country.
Keeping tabs on the jurisdictions which have put into law the so-called “Ban the Box” recommendation is difficult.
As of this writing, Washington, DC, plus 22 States and 49 major cities and counties have enacted legislation, to “remove unfair barriers to employment of people with criminal records”. And, more jurisdictions are considering enacting such legislation.
These recent wins and the unanimous passage of private-employer ban-the-box in Baltimore and San Francisco demonstrate increasingly strong support around the nation for the movement to reduce unfair employment barriers for people with criminal records.
Today, POE repeats the recommendation we made in 06/2013, that our clients “Ban the Box”; that is, delete the check box asking about criminal history from your employment application. “Ban the Box,” does not ban background checks but, instead, postpones them until later in the hiring process, and that is when POE provides unparalleled protection to our clients. No other CRA vets the criminal records like we do. None.
We specialize in conducting the criminal records investigations and in vetting the records for our clients (not offered by other CRA’s). And, if desired, POE conducts the Individualized Assessments.
POEknows screening for criminal records!
POEknows vetting criminal records!
POEknows Individualized Assessments!