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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Arrest records cannot be considered as a disqualifier to employement. And most employers do not even ask about misdemenaor convictions. At this point as you are applying you have no reason to bring this up because there is no conviction. If you are convicted after hire check your employee handbook as you may be required to notify your company.

There has been a whole slew of rules released by the DOL in the last year on how to handle convictions. Google and read up.

I work in HR and you wouldn't believe the number of folks that have DUIs - people you would never guess. But at the end of the day our employees are not transportation workers so the conviction isn't relevant (again read the DOL rulings). [/quote]

Arrests can't, but convictions can.  And DUI itself to me is an indicator of 1) Potential subsistence abuse problem, and/or 2) poor judgement.

In my arena, which requires a federal investigation, the DUI would make it harder to get work....because it makes it harder to be successfully adjudicated for the clearance.  [/quote]

Not always. We recently hired a guy who was arrested on a DUI in April '11. Plead guilty in Oct '11. His license was suspended except for work. Spring '12 we put him in for a TS and it was granted in Nov 2012.

Again the DOL has just recently cracked down on using convictions for resasons not to hire. They are really tying the hands of employers on why you can't hire folks.[/quote]

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