Do you know where the presidential candidates stand on issues that could affect your hiring processes? Make sure you know who supports the issues for employers and HR professionals before you vote.
2. www.goodhire.com
Serious momentum behind
fair-chance hiring practices
like the ban-the-box
movement make it a worthy
issue for employers and HR
professionals to research
when considering their
votes.
Already, 20 states and over
100 counties and cities
nationwide have banned
the box.
california
colorado
connecticut
delaware
georgia
hawaii
illinois
maryland
massachusetts
minnesota
ban-the-box states:
nebraska
new jersey
new mexico
new york
ohio
oregon
rhode island
vermont
virginia
wisconsin
4. www.goodhire.com
hillary clinton
Clinton states her plan on
her campaign site: “take
executive action to ban the
box for federal employers
and contractors.” In 2015,
President Obama started this
work by directing the Office
of Personnel Management
(OPM) to revise its policies
to ban the box from job
applications.
Image Source:
http://www.state.gov//img/09/30646/Secretary_Clinton_8x10__2400_1.jpg
Info Source:
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/criminal-justice-reform/
5. www.goodhire.com
bernie sanders
On his campaign website,
the Vermont senator frames
unfair hiring practices as an
issue of economic violence
against minorities. Sanders
has also expressed his
support for initiatives that
would ban the box for federal
agencies and contractors.
Image Source:
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/imo/media/image/Sanders_Headshot.jpg
Info Source:
https://berniesanders.com/issues/racial-justice/
7. www.goodhire.com
john kasich
Ohio Gov. Kasich issued an
executive order banning the
box on applications for state
jobs. In December 2015,
he signed legislation that
extended banning the box
to non-federal public sector
employers, including local
governments and schools.
Image Source:
http://d3cezi4c0hs65m.cloudfront.net/kasich-headshot-high-res.jpg
Info Source:
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2015/12/23/kasich-signs-ban-box-into-law/77839990/
8. www.goodhire.com
ted cruz
Senator Ted Cruz has spoken
out against mandatory
minimum sentencing and
the plea-bargaining system.
He believes that our criminal
justice system over criminalizes
many offenders, which he
thinks needs to change.
Image Source:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Cruz-Headshot.jpg
Info Source:
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-2016-candidates-want-to-reform-criminal-justice-2015-4
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9. www.goodhire.com
donald trump
Unlike many of the other
candidates, Donald Trump
calls for a tougher criminal
justice system to more
effectively fight crime. He
says that viewing criminals
as “victims of society” is very
dangerous, and that people
should not be allowed to
reenter society so easily.
Image Source:
https://media.guim.co.uk/6ca067773bb1c78cf2ec93c576c7c907a119e905/0_131_3000_1800/
master/3000.jpg
Info Source:
http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Donald_Trump_Crime.htm
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