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Ban the Box Toolkit from NELP Helps Advocates Start a Fair Chance Campaign
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The National Employment Law Project (NELP) – a national advocacy organization for employment rights of lower-wage workers – is offering a Ban the Box...
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Ban the Box Movement May Reach Tipping Point But Could Also Inadvertently Do...
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The fast spreading Ban the Box movement that removes criminal history questions from job applications and delays such inquiries until later in the hiring...
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FBI Fingerprinting Background Checks of Uber Drivers Central Theme of...
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The use of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) database and state criminal history repositories that require fingerprinting “are now a central theme...
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Research Suggests Ban the Box Policies May Unintentionally Harm Minority Job...
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Research on Ban the Box (BTB) policies issued in July 2016 suggests that jurisdictions in the United States that adopted Ban the Box policies preventing...
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NELP Argues Studies Critical of Ban the Box Reach Wrong Conclusion
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The National Employment Law Project (NELP) has released a policy brief – Racial Profiling in Hiring: A Critique of New “Ban the Box” Studies – critical...
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Sacramento CA May Ban the Box on Job Applications
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The City of Sacramento, California is considering a law that may “Ban the Box” and prohibit private companies from receiving city contracts if they ask...
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North Las Vegas Adopts Ban the Box Policy to Help Job Seekers with Criminal...
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn North Las Vegas has become the first municipality in Nevada to adopt a “Ban the Box” policy that will remove the box on city job applications that...
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Jackson County MO Joins Ban the Box Movement
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Jackson County, Missouri has joined the fast spreading Ban the Box movement and will no longer require job candidates applying for employment with the...
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Job Search Site Will Not Post Jobs from Employers that Discriminate against...
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On October 4, 2017, job search website Glassdoor announced that it has “doubled down on its commitment to giving those with a criminal record a fair...
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Local Ban the Box Laws Will Be Challenged as Less Effective than Statewide...
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn As of January 2018, 30 states and more than 150 cities and counties in America have passed “Ban the Box” laws that remove questions about criminal history...
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