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Assignment 1
ERH-102
Maj. Garriott
Harrison Robinson
2/21/17
Help Received:
Writing Center, Cadet Brad Agee, and Major Garriott
Background Checks
Members of the 115th House of Representatives we have a problem in the work force when it comes to job applications process and that is the Fair Credit Reporting Act. More specifically the pert that involves employers doing background checks on prospective employees. Background checks have been around for a long time. They give your future employer references from your past employments, and gives them a record of accomplishment and misdeeds you have done in your life. Whether you are proud of that past or not. That is where my argument arises. People seeking employment that have bad medical history or mental problems do not have to tell their future employer about it until later in the application process. This is to help them since they are at a disadvantage on an equal playing field. The same however, cannot be, said for people with a prior criminal history. People seeking employment that have had prior criminal convictions have to tell the employer at the start of the process. This makes it very hard for people with prior criminal history to get a job. Even if they are the most qualified for the job, because many employers will take quick judgement on the prospective employee without first hearing them out first. This is why I feel like the law needs to change, so that like with mental illness and medical history, the information on your criminal history should not be, discussed until the end of the application process. Making it easier for people with previous criminal convictions to get a jobs.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) enforces a federal law that regulates background reports for employment, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforces federal laws against employment discrimination (EEOC Employer). These two federal departments are the ruling bodies when it comes to background checks they determine what is right and what is wrong according to the law. The FTC regulates background checks so that employers do not over extend into a prospective employee’s background to much by enforcing the rules of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) (EEOC Employees). In addition, they are in place to make sure that employers do not ask any mental or medical questions on until you have the job (EEOC Employees). The EEOC job is to stop employment discrimination of any kind weather that be racial, sexual, religious, mental, or ethical (EEOC Employees).
Neither of these two federal departments protects prospective employees who have a history of criminal convictions. Employers do not have to hear any explanation from prospective employees with criminal backgrounds. They can pass judgment as they please on these prospective employees. Even if the prospective employee in question where to be the most qualified applicant for the job. This is why prospective employees convicted of past crimes should be, allowed to stand up and explain themselves to employers. Therefore, that at the very least the prospective employee can explain what happened and how they have changed since then.
This law change will really effect Criminal Justice Department in a good way; because people will get jobs and stay off the streets, which in turn will keep them out of jail (Ban the Box). When people that are fresh out of jail or have been in jail with in the past few years do not find something like a job they tend to fall back into their old habits that got them into jail the first time. With this adjustment to the law, perspective employees with criminal backgrounds will be able to get jobs a lot easier keeping them off the streets and out of jail. This law change will help the criminal justice department because of the lack of funds provided by the United States government as well as the fact that they are excessively understaffed to handle so many criminal cases a year (Department of Justice). In addition, the law change will decrease the prison population since less people will be sent to jail for crimes they committed because they did not have a purpose in life.
The law change will also strongly effect lower income communities such as the inner cities since a large portion of the prospective employees with this problem come from these areas. With these people being able to get job will improve living conditions in these areas because of the increase in income (Ban the Box). In addition, these people will become examples for the younger generations (Ban the Box). People who went from being convicted criminals on the streets to being hard working people that have a steady job. That way they follow in there new path that does not involve them being sent to jail. Instead, they will want to get jobs so that they can make money to help themselves and make their futures better.
Changing this law will also help the federal, state, and local governments by gaining as well as saving them money. The government will get more money because now the people that did not have jobs will be able to get them. In doing this more of these people will be able to pay taxes to the government. With so many previous criminal and past drug, offenders gaining jobs it will get a lot of them off government operated support systems that drain the government of billions of dollars every year as well. Instead transforming those people into taxpayers that pay the government doesn’t have to worry about taking care of anymore.
People do not realize how many prospective employees are effected by Background checks when applying for a job. Nine percent of background checks preformed will have a serious flag raised concerning some type of criminal conviction (Background Check Statistics). With another forty-six percent reveling some type of discrepancy between the information given and the information revealed (Background Check Statistics). This alone shows how many job applicants, are effected by background checks in the United States. With this, many effected applicants there has to be something wrong with the application process or the law that is in place on what employers can look at and when they can access it during the applications process.
This law change will not prevent employers from asking questions to their perspective employees about their past criminal history. Because it is a very serious topic, when it comes to applying form a job employers most know thing about their employees so they can make the correct executive decision. The law change will just move it later into the employment process giving perspective employees more of a chance to explain themselves when applying for a job (Ban the Box). This change in the law will not take away the hiring decision away from the employer in the end it is still there decision, because it is there company to do with as they please (Ban the Box). This law change will also not override other laws that are set in place to prevent people with relevant convictions from working in certain jobs (Ban the Box). For example, a prospective employee that has been charged with child abuse and child pornography in their past will not be working in a daycare with children.
I want to level the playing field in the job application process. By helping people that have made mistakes in their past and want to correct those mistakes by actually contributing to society. To do this the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) will need to be changed so that it states that prospective employees with criminal backgrounds do not have to tell their future employer that they have past criminal history until the end of the application process. Thereby making it easier for prospective employees with criminal backgrounds have equal opportunities as prospective employees without criminal history, and providing equal opportunity for everyone that wants to apply for a job.
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