If you search you can find people based on the states they live in. The PDFs provided will give all details, possibly even addresses. Tell them how you feel, any time, any place!
If you search you can find people based on the states they live in. The PDFs provided will give all details, possibly even addresses. Tell them how you feel, any time, any place!
Someone download, quick! Definitely adding this to my company’s pre-hiring due diligence and background check procedures.
Is it legal to discriminate against a felon if the felony was pardoned? Genuine question. They were found guilty but got off anyway. Similarly, would they still need to check YES on “have you been convicted of a felony” on forms?
If someone legally wears a, “I hate black people” t-shirt, posts pictures online, applies at my company, and I see them, that would be disqualifying. I think participating in a riot at the capital, regardless of conviction would be the same.
For the second part, were their sentences commuted or were they pardoned? I’ve tried to keep this past week’s political news at arms length to maintain my sanity. If they were just commuted, then they’re still convicted felons, but I think with a pardon, the record is expunged. I made that last part up on gut instinct alone, so don’t take it as fact, but it makes sense to me.
“Have you ever been convicted of a felony?” is a pretty straightforward yes/no question.
True. When phrased that way, it’s pretty definitive.
I have a fiduciary obligation to hire employees with integrity, who abide by the law. I don’t think a presidential pardon makes any difference to how I evaluate a candidate, regardless of type. Maybe the law treats the two differently, but I don’t think I need to. If anything, benefiting from a pardon makes me less likely to hire them: they haven’t repaid their debt to society, they just got lucky.
Being a felon is not a protected class.
Considering he just EO’d to get rid of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act, they ostensibly don’t care about anything but “merit”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/
So long as you don’t discriminate against a legally protected class, you can discriminate all you want.
The key, though, is to never specify why you aren’t hiring them. You have more legal cover if you don’t specify why you aren’t hiring them.
“bad cultural fit”
Some of those pardoned were not yet convicted of anything.