DesireeNevermind said:

Maybe background checks are the new racial/sexual/political/national origin discrimination method? I've heard you can use a background check AND a credit report to weed out people you probably didn't want to hire in the first place. You probably can't deny somebody an interview . If the basic qualifying critieria are met through an application process then they can be interviewed...but if you come face to face and you don't like something...voila! Enter ye ole background check, credit check, or what have you. Parking tickets seem an extreme discerning factor here but again...it probably wasn't the parking tickets. Not like those can't be resolved before the actual hire.

That's exactly what's going on in some instances. These types of lawsuits have increased, so much so EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) have made employers aware such actions could get them in trouble.

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DesireeNevermind said:

BklynBabe said:

somebody in HR cousin got that job....trust!

and your siggy too!

I noticed it too. I wonder if the cat who works at McDonald's can get some p.

Man I'm with Rand Paul. Let people hire and fire who they want when they want to and let word of mouth get the business to lose sales.

TD3 said:

DesireeNevermind said:

Maybe background checks are the new racial/sexual/political/national origin discrimination method? I've heard you can use a background check AND a credit report to weed out people you probably didn't want to hire in the first place. You probably can't deny somebody an interview . If the basic qualifying critieria are met through an application process then they can be interviewed...but if you come face to face and you don't like something...voila! Enter ye ole background check, credit check, or what have you. Parking tickets seem an extreme discerning factor here but again...it probably wasn't the parking tickets. Not like those can't be resolved before the actual hire.

That's exactly what's going on in some instances. These types of lawsuits have increased, so much so EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) have made employers aware such actions could get them in trouble.

CarrieMpls said:

Speeding is illegal. Too many speeding tickets shows someone not only regularly breaks the law, but clearly hasn't learned their lesson and continues bad behavior even when reprimanded for it.

Exactly what I was thinking. Companies look at your credit to see if you're a deadbeat. And it could inicate someone who's bad with money. Too much debt might lead to theft. Too many speeding tickets indicates someone who is reckless and has minimal respect for the rules. Both of these things tend to raise red flags to employers. That's why these young folk today need to stay the heck off of facebook and the like. Later on down the line, it's sure to come up and bite them scare in the arse!

Another way of looking at it, if he is driving from job site to job site, even in his own vehicle, they may reimburse him for his mileage. He could still be considered to be "on the job" while driving between job sites. Speeders are more likely to get into wrecks, and if he were to get in a wreck and it was determined that he was "on the job" at the time of the wreck, it is possible the company could be held responsible financially. With the economy the way it is, no company wants to risk the possibility of being in a lawsuit for reckless and negligent driving of one of it's employees.

DoesNotCompute said:

Another way of looking at it, if he is driving from job site to job site, even in his own vehicle, they may reimburse him for his mileage. He could still be considered to be "on the job" while driving between job sites. Speeders are more likely to get into wrecks, and if he were to get in a wreck and it was determined that he was "on the job" at the time of the wreck, it is possible the company could be held responsible financially. With the economy the way it is, no company wants to risk the possibility of being in a lawsuit for reckless and negligent driving of one of it's employees.

All of that would be true but it is NOT the case. Mileage reimbursement is not even on the table.

DesireeNevermind said:

kpowers said:

People go to jail for having to many speeding tickets. What if they hire him then two weeks later police arrest him and he has to spend some time in jail.

But what if he made arrangements to pay the fines?

Speeding tickets usually carry "points" in most states. If he's gotten enough of these speeding tickets, seems to me he would have tallied up numerous points unless somehow they did not get attached to the tickets. If you get too many points in a certain amount of time, your license can be revoked. Yes, your friend might be outstanding in his job, but his lack of judgement has bitten him in the butt, po fella.