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Banning the Box: Employment Hiring

Banning the box adds questions about criminal records that will later pop up in the pre-employment screening and hiring process but it does not prohibit a check on criminal records earlier to employers making a job offer. The makers of the ban the box legislation will argue that the benefits of it will reduce unemployment, decrease the offenders to repeat their crimes increase employer’s pool of qualified employees and prevent racism and race discrimination resulting from disparate impact.

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Banning the Box: Employment Hiring

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  1. Banning the Box: Employment Hiring

  2. Ban the box legislation is affecting the hiring practices and process of employers by directly impacting the pre- employment inquiries into records, People with criminal records will find that it will be difficult to get a job which is often due to employers and their use of blanket policies that will ultimately exclude applicants with criminal records. an applicant’s criminal

  3. Ban the Box Legislation Ban the box puts the questions about criminal records in the pre-employment screening and hiring process. A major advocate of the ban the box legislation is an approach to act as fair chance that will help improve the employment prospects of ex-offenders by giving the entire applicant an opportunity to pass the qualification on jobs without automatically being rejected because of their criminal records.

  4. Why Ban the Box? The ban the box legislation has a major argument which is an economic one. Because of the stigma associated with having criminal records, ex-offenders are experiencing a lot of difficulty in finding jobs that those who don’t have criminal records.

  5. Concerns of Employers about Banning the Box Employers are under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, which they are legally responsible for providing a hazard free workplace that will avoid death or serious harm to their employees. So any constraints to prevent employers from asking for criminal records are at conflict with the legal mandate to keep the safety of the workplace. For a full background check online, go to www.govpublicaccess.com.

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