That is still a bit strange. All the applications I have filled out the question is have you ever been found guilty.... On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Tim Bogart wrote: > No. Maybe I didn't explain it clearly enough. No, they did not > terminate people for having a brush with the law and being found innocent or > acquitted or for whatever reason, were not convicted. They terminated those > people for *FAILING TO DISCLOSE* their brush with the law, and the > accompanying details on the application. Understandable in my mind. > > Tim... > > ------------------------------ > *From:* JD Austin > > *To:* Main PLUG discussion list > *Sent:* Thu, September 16, 2010 2:48:46 PM > > *Subject:* Re: OT - Explaining periods of unemployment on an application > > Hold on.. they fired people that were ACQUITTED of a crime? That seems a > bit too far :( > If a court can't find them guilty how can an employer? > > > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 14:38, Tim Bogart wrote: > >> I like your response. At a company with which I worked for many years, >> many years ago used to send me email on a daily basis listing folks who had >> been terminated. Of those, many were terminated because of falsehoods on >> their applications. And of those, not nearly, but ALL were due to >> information omitted regarding some crime that the individual had committed. >> And they ran the gambit from robbery to murder. Yes, murder, believe it or >> not. But in fairness, of those, they involved folks who had been tried for >> murder and had been exonerated by some means (found not guilty, thrown out >> due to mistrial or other reasons) but the point is that they had concealed >> the facts regarding criminal activities (I mean seriously, how can you >> forget to list something like that, or how can you think it somehow doesn't >> qualify as something a potential employer would not be interested?) that are >> easily checked. >> >> Tim B. >> >> I'm sticking with Grandpa Jones here... >> "True is stranger than fact." >> Hee-Haw >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >