Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On September 12, 2023, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released two companion reports – “Second Chances Part I” and “Second Chances Part 2” – that show “federal agencies are hiring qualified individuals with prior arrests or convictions in their background checks,” according to an EEOC press release.…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn A report titled “Second Chance Employment: Addressing Concerns About Negligent Hiring Liability” provides crucial information and aims to alleviate concerns about negligent hiring liability so employers can safely tap into an expanded talent pool of qualified job-seekers that include ex-offenders with a past criminal record. The report produced…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn In June 2023, the New York State Legislature passed the “Clean Slate Act” (S.7551-A/A.1029-C) “which would establish the automatic sealing of certain conviction records after a specific period of time for individuals that have completed their sentences and meet certain eligibility requirements,” according to a press release. The…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn American business magazine and global media company Forbes has issued a three-part series that examines United States legislation that may impact background screening in 2023. “Part One” focused on clean slate legislation, “Part Two” covered pro-marijuana legislation, and “Part Three” looked at pay transparency laws. “Part One”: In…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn An estimated 64 percent of unemployed men in the United States have been arrested by the age of 35 while 46 percent of them have been convicted of a crime by the same age, with the rates varying only slightly by race and ethnicity, according to a…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On February 10, 2022, the Utah “Clean Slate” law that expunges certain types of misdemeanor criminal records automatically will officially take effect to help the residents of Utah who have some type of criminal record that may prevent them from accessing jobs, housing, education, loans, and other…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On January 26, 2022, a federal judge in a U.S. District Court in New York City said a convicted murderer who served 23 years in prison may pursue a proposed class action lawsuit against Amazon.com Inc. and its Whole Foods unit after he was turned down for…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On November 10, 2021, the Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center launched the Fair Chance Licensing Project in an unprecedented effort to track fair chance licensing practices across all 50 United States to reduce barriers to employment for ex-offenders with criminal records and address the current talent…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On October 20, 2021, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) announced a new effort to identify and correct violations of the Fair Chance Act, a pioneering state “Ban the Box” law that seeks to reduce barriers to employment for ex-offenders with criminal histories, according…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Job seekers applying for work with the Orange County, Florida, government “will no longer have to disclose prior criminal convictions at the beginning of the application process” thanks to a “Ban the Box” hiring policy adopted by officials to improve access to employment for ex-offenders, according to…
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