Supported by the Bureau of Justice Assistance
Hosted
by the National Employment Law Project, and the National Reentry Resource
Center
The
nation’s 3,000 One-Stop Career Centers and their partners in the employer,
non-profit, and worker rights communities play a critical role in assisting
people with criminal records in finding employment. However, the workforce
development community also faces challenges as workers struggle to navigate the
new realities of criminal background checks for employment.
Thanks
to new guidelines issued by the U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training
Administration (ETA) and Civil Rights Center (CRC), the federally-funded
workforce development and employment exchange community (i.e., programs funded
by the Workforce Investment Act and the Wagner-Peyser Act) are now better
positioned to respond to these challenges. The guidance educates employers and
workers about the civil rights and consumer protection considerations that
regulate criminal background checks for employment.
DOL's
guidance letter complements the new guidance recently issued by the U.S. Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission, which addresses the disproportionate impact
of criminal background checks on people of color. The DOL guidance provides a
step-by-step guide, including model notices for both employers and workers, to
ensure that the workforce development community promotes maximum compliance
with the law.
Presenters:
- Jane Oates, Assistant Secretary, Employment Training Administration,
U.S. Department of Labor
- Maurice Emsellem, Policy Co-Director, National Employment Law Project
- Charles Turner, Adult Career Services Re-Entry Manager, Oakland
Private Industry Council, Inc.
- Others TBA
Date: Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Time: 2:15-3:15 p.m. ET
Time: 2:15-3:15 p.m. ET
To
register for this webinar, please click here.
This is
a National Reentry Resource Center Announcement. This announcement is funded in
whole or in part through a grant (award number: 2010-MUBX-KO84) from the Bureau
of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.
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