Pepsi discrimination charges

KN: "Using arrest and conviction records to deny employment can be illegal if it’s irrelevant for the job" How many jobs is that? 

Pepsi Beverages pays $3.1 million to settle federal race discrimination charges

By Associated Press, Published: January 11

WASHINGTON — Pepsi Beverages Co. will pay $3.1 million to settle federal charges of race discrimination for using criminal background checks to screen out job applicants — even if they weren’t convicted of a crime.

The settlement announced Wednesday with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is part of a national government crackdown on hiring policies that can hurt blacks and Hispanics.

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EEOC officials said the company’s policy of not hiring workers with arrest records disproportionately excluded more than 300 black applicants. The policy barred applicants who had been arrested, but not convicted of a crime, and denied employment to others who were convicted of minor offenses.

Using arrest and conviction records to deny employment can be illegal if it’s irrelevant for the job, according to the EEOC, which enforces the nation’s employment discrimination laws. The agency says such blanket policies can limit job opportunities for minorities with higher arrest and conviction rates than whites.

• Origin of ...Left & Right.

I have often wondered why it is that Conservatives are called the "right" and Liberals are called the "left."

By chance I stumbled upon this verse in the Bible:

"The heart of the wise inclines to the right,
But the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV) Thus sayeth the Lord. Amen.

Can't get any simpler than that.

NOW...Spelling Lesson....

The last four letters in American.......... I Can
The last four letters in Republican........ I Can
The last four letters in Democrats..........Rats

End of lesson. Test to follow in November, 2012
Remember, November 2012 is to be set aside as rodent extermination month.