Eighty-two percent (82%) of voters say that employers should be allowed to require background checks of potential employees as part of the application process.
A Scott Rasmussen national survey conducted by RMG Research found that just 10% say they should not be allowed to require them.
When asked specifically about retail companies that experience high levels of petty theft, 94% believe it is reasonable for employers to require applicants to pass criminal background checks.
This follows a lawsuit by the Biden Administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against Sheetz, a large gas and convenience store chain. The EEOC alleges that Sheetz’s policy of requiring criminal background checks for all applicants amounts to racial discrimination because minorities fail those background checks at higher rates than white applicants.
However, the survey found that, even if people of a particular gender, racial, or ethnic group are less likely to pass such background checks, 80% voters say requiring them is not a form of discrimination.
Survey Questions
Some employers require applicants to pass a criminal background check before being hired. Should employers be allowed to require these sorts of background checks as a condition of employment?
- 82%-Yes
- 10%-No
- 8%-Not sure
Retail companies experience high levels of petty theft. When hiring employees who are going to have access to merchandise and cash, is it reasonable for such stores to require job applicants to pass a criminal background check?
- 69%-Very reasonable
- 25%-Somewhat reasonable
- 3%-Somewhat unreasonable
- 1%-Very unreasonable
- 1%-Not sure
Generally speaking, men are less likely than women to pass criminal background checks. Knowing this to be true, does requiring a criminal background check discriminate against men?
- 14%-Yes
- 80%-No
- 7%-Not sure
What about race? If people from some racial and ethnic groups are less likely to pass criminal background checks, is requiring a criminal background check a form of racial discrimination?
- 15%-Yes
- 80%-No
- 6%-Not sure
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This administration tries desperately to find a racial element in everything.
Be on the lookout for a survey asking “Is a white toilet seat discriminatory?”
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Waiting for the survey.
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Criminal background checks are nothing to fear if you aren’t a baddie.
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Right?!
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