[BDSM-LegalIssues] Re: New book -- good but disturbing
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<leigha@...> wrote:
>
> Jay-
>
> Every person who comes to work for the company I do (I'm the
corporate controller where I work) signs a form
> that allows us to do a background check which include a credit,
criminal, prior employment etc. checks.
>
> In my experience- these forms are pretty standard for almost all
businesses.
>
> My real world work position includes protecting the corporation I
work for, and for liability reasons as well as many other reasons
> we do not hire people who have criminal histories. There is of
course latitiude-- no one is going to lose out on a position because
> he's had an arrest 20 years ago when he was in college for some
minor misdemeanor.
> employee who doesn't have a criminal history and one who does, I'll
hire the one without every time. There are simply too many
> potential problems liability wise to knowingly hire someone with a
record that puts either the company's employees or assets at
> risk. And yes, we've fired employees for being arrested (but not
yet convicted) for violent felonies.
Wow. Freakin' wow. There it is, in black and white for all to see.
Um, let me guess. As a matter of corporate policy, you do, of
course, routinely re-hire those fired employees, with full back pay
and benefits, who have been arrested for violent felonies if they
subsequently have their original charges dropped, or reduced to a non-
violent felony, or reduced to a misdemeanor, or acquitted, right?
Your company has had such a "rehire and restore" policy for years,
right?
The alternative suggests that a person who is *completely factually
innocent* of such a charge nonetheless summarily loses their job with
your company with no recourse (ah, the joys of "at will" employment),
and further suggests that you are just fine with that. After
all, "can't take a chance" right?
> I'm surprised you feel like my volunteer work with and for NCSF is
relevant in this matter at all.
>
> Leigha
I'm not surprised, not at all, that you're surprised.
Jay -- thinking that there are some people in places like San Diego
and Attleboro who should not bother applying for a job in the company
you so proudly "protect."
p.s. The author of the book notes that privacy is, in most of
Europe, much more strongly protected than it is here. This includes
things like corporate access to arrest records. Time for a bit of
legislation, methinks.
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