Re:Study finds most unemployed young men have criminal records
by yuliyp on Friday February 18, 2022 @06:13PM
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You'll just get discrimination based on proxies for criminal background instead (poverty, suspicious gaps in employment, zip code).
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Re:Study finds most unemployed young men have criminal records
by dibujante on Friday February 18, 2022 @06:16PM
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And race. If employers can't actually check your record, they'll make assumptions about it, and some of those are pretty unsavory.
Re:Study finds most unemployed young men have criminal records
by LorenPechtel on Saturday February 19, 2022 @03:04PM
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I'd like to see some of those proxies removed from the picture.
1) Employment history: Ban putting dates on a resume and in general make it a prohibited question. You worked there X years, not from YYYY to ZZZZ. The current approach is obviously looking for whether you were fired, but ends up tainting you if you're ever laid off in a bad market, or even if you simply chose non-employment activity for some reason.
2) Address likewise should be removed. Phone & e-mail is all they need.