The City Council of Madison, Wisconsin has the joined numerous municipalities across the country by passing a legislation to ban the box – except for police and firefighter applicants – officials are now considering whether to force city vendors and contractors to do the same.
Past practice was to include the question on city applications, then do criminal background checks on finalists for a job. If a check returned something serious, human resources would tell the candidate thanks, but no thanks, according to city human resources director Brad Wirtz. The new law will remove that box from applications for city employment that asks job-seekers whether they’ve been convicted of a crime.
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