OT - Explaining periods of unemployment on an application

[Ed]

These are called "yes" answers, and for anyone getting a brokers
license the trigger is arrest - so avoid getting paperwork if you can.
Otherwise, don't leave it out. A yes answer is not necessarily a
disqualification (felony financial fraud, ok yes - others, not so
much). Other areas of disclosure include bankruptcy.

The annual (for profit) corporation filing has a typical list of
declarations - http://corporations.azcc.gov/filings/forms/cf0022.pdf

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:59 PM, JD Austin <jd at twingeckos.com> wrote:
> I've only ever seen applications ask if you've been convicted of a crime
> never just accused.
> If the question is 'accused' I would check yes and write 'I was falsely
> accused and was acquitted' next to it; if there wasn't room I'd check both
> boxes.  Alternately I'd cross out the offending word and put convicted and
> check no.  Anyone fired for undisclosed suspicion of a crime who has been
> acquitted should sue the heck out of that company.
> I can see if you were convicted and left it out where that would be grounds
> but if you were acquitted it's a different matter.  Accusation!=guilt.
>  People falsely accuse people of things they didn't do all the time.  Police
> mistakenly arrest and charge the wrong person for a crime they didn't commit
> (some even are put to death though those people ARE convicted).
> I don't think it's fair to ask if someone has been accused of a crime but
> it's fine to ask if they have been convicted.
> More direct questions like 'have you ever stolen' are fine with me too.
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 15:21, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:
>>
>> The significance isn't the crime itself, that you were tried, or what the
>> verdict was. The significance is you falsified your application by omitting
>> the fact that it occurred. Lying about it (or anything) on you application
>> is a term of dismissal. It's that simple.
>>
>> JD Austin wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm glad I don't work somewhere like that.  If I was acquitted/exonerated
>>> of a crime I wouldn't list it on an application either!  I can't think of a
>>> reason anyone would.  If it was a crime I'd been convicted of that was later
>>> expunged I would list it though; perhaps that is what you're referring to?
>>>
>
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