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by minkiebun 899 days ago
Many companies handle background checks in exactly this manner; it’s common for seven years to be a cutoff where they stop caring.
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Which is excellent, and should make it easy to codify that into law.
Think again. Historically, codifying workers' rights into law requires either a material benefit to powerful employers or decades of brutal sacrifice from working people who risk their lives in mass strikes.
Soft on criminals is not usually a vote winner.