Certainly the spirt of the law was to stop employers from discriminating against those with criminal records, great. However, the 'letter of the law' has run head first into bureaucratic/double-speak nonsense.
Surely the purpose of our judicial system is to correctly interpret and implement the laws as they were meant (a.k.a. the spirit of the law) not to slice and dice every law down and enforce them so that the law becomes altogether useless.
What incentive does a company have to refer criminal activity within its' own house to the police? Will they not just end up firing everyone involved rather than risk being force to continue employing someone who has already stolen from them? And then what? Innocent and guilty alike will be fired, but the guilty will otherwise receive no punishment or even a record and are then free to gain new employment and repeat the theft without the next employer or the one after that ever being given any indication.
This makes about as much cents as a penny.
Certainly the spirt of the law was to stop employers from discriminating against those with criminal records, great. However, the 'letter of the law' has run head first into bureaucratic/double-speak nonsense.
Surely the purpose of our judicial system is to correctly interpret and implement the laws as they were meant (a.k.a. the spirit of the law) not to slice and dice every law down and enforce them so that the law becomes altogether useless.
What incentive does a company have to refer criminal activity within its' own house to the police? Will they not just end up firing everyone involved rather than risk being force to continue employing someone who has already stolen from them? And then what? Innocent and guilty alike will be fired, but the guilty will otherwise receive no punishment or even a record and are then free to gain new employment and repeat the theft without the next employer or the one after that ever being given any indication.
I feel like our society is sliding into '1984'.