1 / 9

Willingness vs. Reluctance of Employers in Hiring Ex-Offenders

Extensive information gathered from firms was about minority ownership status, racial composition of applicants, and presence of collective bargaining. And the willingness of the firms in hiring ex-offenders for jobs and if employers actually hired a person with criminal records. Identifying if employers know if they hired applicant with criminal records and whether they knew or not and if employers used background checks to find criminal records or any kind of red flag.

deborahrangel
Download Presentation

Willingness vs. Reluctance of Employers in Hiring Ex-Offenders

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Willingness vs. Reluctance of Employers in Hiring Ex-Offenders

  2. Data from the 90s showed the employer’s willingness to give ex-offenders’ jobs were only a small percentage like the groups of people who are welfare patients or those who are long-term unemployed the disadvantage workers.

  3. Willingness to Hire People with Criminal Records Over 40 percent of employers said they would definitely not have interested in hiring people with criminal records even for a job that does not need any college degree.

  4. But 90 percent of employers have said that they would consider hiring people with disadvantages with GED but without any high school diploma. 

  5. The reluctance in hiring people with criminal records continues and reflects problems in both the supply and demand of labor. The incarcerated applicants do not generally gain work experience and skills that they erode while they were inside the prison and serving time.

  6. Use of Checking Criminal Records Checking criminal records are one way for employers to get access to information of the applicant’s criminal records and the constitution of an indirect means of gauging aversion of employers in hiring people with criminal records.

  7. Employers are less averse to hiring people with criminal records of certain kinds of offenses than others and they take experience from post-prison work into hiring decisions. There are potential returns to policies that will give transitional jobs for those who are leaving prison.

  8. A lot of employers are now checking criminal records and refuse hiring ex-offender; it is to check these legal barriers especially the laws that prevent hiring into certain jobs and industries.

  9. Always run Criminal Background Check on your applicants and employees, go to www.govpublicaccess.com to know more.

More Related