Dear Friends, on July 26, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission held a hearing on removing arbitrary bars to hiring people with arrest and conviction records. After the hearing, International CURE and 325 other organizations and coalitions filed comments.
After reading most of them, International CURE drafted the following acronym CERTIFY as a procedure for employers when they interview potential employees.
1) Conditional Employment this certify procedure begins only where there is mad an offer of employment. 2) Request of a criminal conviction record is made by the employer to a third party agency or is completed by the employer. 3) Time in that only the last five years of the conviction record (excluded are arrests without convictions) 4) Informed by the employer to the potential employee in writing of either the entire record or those convictions that are of concern 5) Fight in that potential employees have an opportunity to point out any inaccuracies in the record and also explain how they have rehabilitated themselves in regard to these convictions. 6) Yes (or No) decision to hire is made by the employer.
Please email me your reaction to this CERTIFY draft. Does being certified work for you or your loved ones and friends who may have convictions? Charlie
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