This month two ban the box legislations will go into effect,
Baltimore, Maryland; and San Francisco, California. Both were passed earlier this year. San Francisco also requires that the employer must provide the applicant
with a written notice before making any inquiry into the applicant’s criminal
history and display a poster in the workplace developed by the City’s Office of
Labor Standards Enforcement (OLSE).
Aurico wants to remind employers to consider the timing for which
they are inquiring about past criminal records and finds that the best practice
trend is to eliminate the criminal question from the application. Most of the ordinances that have passed the
“ban the box” legislation allow for the question to be asked later in the
process after a first interview and/or a contingent offer of employment.
Other states/cities ordinances passed for private employers are as
follows: Hawaii, Illinois (January, 2015), Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Rhode
Island, Baltimore, Buffalo, Newark, Philadelphia, Rochester, San Francisco, and
Seattle.
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