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A comment on Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release? by minkiebun on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @09:40PM (#38862400)
Many companies handle background checks in exactly this manner; it’s common for seven years to be a cutoff where they stop caring.
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Re:Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release? by akira2501 on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @10:07PM (#38862518)
Which is excellent, and should make it easy to codify that into law.
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Re:Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release? by felon1234567890 on Thursday January 04, 2024 @02:36AM (#38864225)
Soft on criminals is not usually a vote winner.
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Re:Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release? by jdksmdbtbdnmsm on Friday January 05, 2024 @12:31PM (#38881835)
Think again. Historically, codifying workers' rights into law requires either a material benefit to powerful employers or decades of brutal sacrifice from working people who risk their lives in mass strikes.
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