ShootSpeeders
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If disparate impact is the key, then how does obama justify affirmative action? Hell - that's a government program designed to have a disparate impact. That is its whole justification; to help blacks and hurt whites.
Are Employee Background Checks Racist? The EEOC And FTC Think So - Investors.com
03/27/2014 04:31 PM ET
The Obama administration has threatened employers that run criminal and credit background checks on job applicants, arguing these are racial "barriers" to hiring even though federal agencies routinely use them.
Last week the Federal Trade Commission joined with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to tell employers that background checks could have a "disparate impact" on black people and expose private firms to lawsuits.
Threatening aggressive enforcement, the agencies released new compliance guidelines: "Background Checks: What Employers Need to Know." They advise employers to "take special care when basing employment decisions on background problems that may be more common among people of a certain race."
Noting that black men are incarcerated at six times the rate of white men, the EEOC said African-Americans are far more likely to have a criminal record that would exclude them from jobs under screening policies.
Disparate impact is a controversial civil-rights theory applied increasingly by the administration, from home loans to school discipline. It relies on statistics to indicate racism, a much lower standard of proof than actual acts of racism.