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HOME DEPOT ACCUSED OF VIOLATING CIVIL RIGHTS OF JOB APPLICANTS WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS---Legal Action Center and National Employment Law Center seeking poeple with complaints

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

HOME DEPOT ACCUSED OF VIOLATING CIVIL RIGHTS OF JOB APPLICANTS WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS Please see the notice below regarding a Title VII national class charge recently filed against Home Depot based on its failure to hire applicants due to their prior conviction history: HOME DEPOT ACCUSED OF VIOLATING CIVIL RIGHTS OF JOB APPLICANTS WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS Two African-American men have filed charges of discrimination against Home Depot alleging that the company's rejection of their job applications based on their past criminal records violates federal civil rights laws forbidding race discrimination because the practice has an adverse impact on African Americans and Hispanics. The charges were filed with the New York office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).