from http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20141215/BLOGS03/141219912/with-nearly-80-million-americans-possessing-criminal-records
With nearly 80 million Americans possessing criminal records, employers have difficulties filling vacant jobs
Nick Fishman, executive vice president of EmployeeScreenIQ, a background-screening firm in Cleveland, is quoted in this Wall Street Journal story about yet-another problem facing employers trying to fill vacant positions.
“Three decades of tougher laws and policing have left nearly one in three adult Americans with a criminal record,” the paper says, citing Federal Bureau of Investigation data. That arrest wave “is washing up on the desks of America’s employers,” according to The Journal.
Companies seeking new employees “are forced to navigate a patchwork of state and federal laws that either encourage or deter hiring people with criminal pasts and doing the checks that reveal them,” the story notes. “Employers are having to make judgments about who is rehabilitated and who isn’t. And whichever decision they make, they face increasing possibilities for ending up in court.”
The numbers are staggering: There are nearly 80 million Americans with criminal records (including arrests that didn’t lead to a conviction) and the Internet and computerized databases “make such information easier than ever to obtain,” according to the story.
“Three decades of tougher laws and policing have left nearly one in three adult Americans with a criminal record,” the paper says, citing Federal Bureau of Investigation data. That arrest wave “is washing up on the desks of America’s employers,” according to The Journal.
Companies seeking new employees “are forced to navigate a patchwork of state and federal laws that either encourage or deter hiring people with criminal pasts and doing the checks that reveal them,” the story notes. “Employers are having to make judgments about who is rehabilitated and who isn’t. And whichever decision they make, they face increasing possibilities for ending up in court.”
The numbers are staggering: There are nearly 80 million Americans with criminal records (including arrests that didn’t lead to a conviction) and the Internet and computerized databases “make such information easier than ever to obtain,” according to the story.
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