The Labor and Employment Podcast
Jun 11, 2026 · 29 min · 10 segments
In Part 2, Rosemary Enright and Michael Sciotti take a deeper dive into the legal and practical considerations surrounding criminal convictions in the hiring process. They discuss how employers might…
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Like people may answer a question a certain way and an employer may think, well, I don't want to ask a follow-up or should I ask a follow-up or should I get clarity on this? So we thought, or I think, Mike, some examples here would be helpful.
So, you know, as we ended the last podcast, I said, you know, the sort of the discrimination standard you have to show that there's a direct relationship between the employment being sought and the conviction or a safety risk, in essence.
And why did they say you can't work there? Well, I have a criminal conviction.
And I said, would it happen to be for robbery? Bank robbery? Oh, come on, Mike.
Like people may answer a question a certain way and an employer may think, well, I don't want to ask a follow-up or should I ask a follow-up or should I get clarity on this? So we thought, or I think, Mike, some examples here would be helpful.
So, you know, as we ended the last podcast, I said, you know, the sort of the discrimination standard you have to show that there's a direct relationship between the employment being sought and the conviction or a safety risk, in essence.
And why did they say you can't work there? Well, I have a criminal conviction.
And I said, would it happen to be for robbery? Bank robbery? Oh, come on, Mike.
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