Submitted by Dirtperson Steve
Sheetz Convenience Stores Accused Of Discriminating Against Minority Job Seekers By Refusing To Consider Applicants With Criminal Record
A popular US convenience store chain has been hit with a civil rights lawsuit accusing it of discriminating against minority job seekers because it requires applicants to have no criminal record.
On April 18, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that it had filed a lawsuit against Sheetz Inc., accusing the 24/7 convenience store chain of having discriminatory hiring practices that targeted minority applicants.
According to the lawsuit, Sheetz has maintained a longstanding practice of screening all job applicants for records of criminal conviction and then denying them employment based on those records.
As a result, the EEOC is accusing Sheetz of “disproportionately screening out Black, Native American/Alaska Native and multiracial applicants.” This is despite the fact that the lawsuit does not allege that Sheetz’s hiring practices were motivated by race.
According to the EEOC press release, Sheetz’s hiring practices violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion and national origin. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Northern Division, after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
“Federal law mandates that employment practices causing a disparate impact because of race or other protected classifications must be shown by the employer to be necessary to ensure the safe and efficient performance of the particular jobs at issue,” said EEOC Regional Attorney Debra M. Lawrence. “Even when such necessity is proven, the practice remains unlawful if there is an alternative practice available that is comparably effective in achieving the employer’s goals but causes less discriminatory effect.”
The EEOC began its probe into Sheetz after two job applicants filed civil rights complaints alleging employment discrimination.
The agency then found that Black job applicants were deemed to have failed the company’s criminal history screening and were denied employment at a rate of 14.5%, while multiracial job seekers were turned away 13.5% of the time and Native Americans were denied at a rate of 13%.
By contrast, fewer than 8% of white applicants were refused employment because of a failed criminal background check, the EEOC’s lawsuit states.
Sheetz is a chain of gas stations and convenience stores primarily located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, particularly in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. The franchise is most well-known for its customizable food options similar to WaWa, with a number of made-to-order dishes, frozen desserts, and milkshakes available.
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OK…………..who came up the name of this place ?
Sheetz negro
Sheet if I know …….
Who wouldn’t want to hire criminal negroes to ruin your business?
Duh.
Everyone should be hiring felons convicted of embezzling, purse snatching, burglary and armed robbery to run their cash registers, you know the kind of people that have shown a lot of support for property rights! And maybe a rapist or two to attract the women customers into the store?
This completely corrupt insanity cannot be fixed by voting……..
Irish Democracy is the last hope before the inevitable.
That ain’t meandering, it’s doddering. What a gyp. I wanted to see him meander like a normal guy. Who needs more footage of the old perv doddering around?
Sounds an awful lot like a government shakedown, guess sheetz has been paying thier tributes.
Then has the gall to complain……
The first order of every Bolshevik Revolution is to loose the criminals upon the populaces. This Republic is under full frontal assault and no one in Congress can name the enemy for fear of reprisal or worse.
Unfinished Victory
ARTHUR BRYANT • 1940
In Munich loudspeakers on the Teresian Field blared out “Down with Capitalism!” “Down with the Wittelsbachs!” while the Jew, Kurt Eisner, aroused the crowd with his eloquence till it swarmed shouting into the city to release the criminals from the gaols and plunder the shops.
In Buda Pest criminals were quartered in the houses of the rich while their former occupants were crowded into the gaols. The members of the Allied Mission saw a number of these latter, who to impress them had been set at tables in the foyer of one of the big hotels to sip coffee and listen gaily to the band. But the Red Guards omitted to order them to make conversation, and the captives’ silence as they huddled with frightened eyes over the tables told the visitors what was amiss. In the country hunted landowners and their families hid in barns or escaped by slipping over the frontiers. Trade virtually ceased, and a terrorised people lived mostly on cabbages. Their ragged clothes and anxious yellow faces long haunted travellers from happier lands.
https://www.unz.com/book/arthur_bryant__unfinished-victory/
After the Convid fiasco,I have NO shits to give about any company,conglomerate or corporation and their problems and issues….they brought all this on themselves…they played footsie with tyranny for market share and abandoned any higher ideals than the dollar ….He who trades liberty for security deserves NEITHER!……works on a company level as well……..they deserve neither employees or success…..all for a dollar that isnt worth the paper its printed on……
There isn’t any hope,
Let the 2nd Amendment have an at bat too.
It’s the bottom of the ninth and we are down a a few runs,
and the umpire is on the take.
There are two kinds of people in the world…those who break the law and those who are going to. We can argue about why that is, but that IS your labor pool.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
For fucks sake, Langly.
That’s pathetic even for you.
But then again, that’s the water of Fairfax County you swim in.
Fetid swamp water.
The Constitution provides for “equal protection under the law”, but the government has come up with “protected classes” of people.
‘Disparate impact’ … an early end run around the 14th Amendment that has been used to bludgeon US into submission on so many issues.
This will continue until the USA is the 110th country that they have been removed from.
No sheetz left to give for Sheetz. On a cross country drive a few years ago while paying at a Sheetz I noticed for sale a number of life-sized, multicolored, glass dildoes in the glass case right under where you put your money down. Anatomically correct Paperweights? I wrote management and have never been back. The way things have gone since then no telling what they sell now.
Hhuhh. I wonder if the Biden/Harris administration is taxing me to provide free glass dildos to vibrant minorities and “newcomers”?
I kinda doubt that the glass dildoes vibrated. I think you mighta misread that shit.
Up next: we do not discriminate based on sex, religion, race and criminal record.
??? Umm, we can’t hire you if you answer yes to any of the following questions…
1.Do you identify as White?
2.Do you consider yourself a law abiding citizen?
3.Do you think there is only Male or Females?
4.Are you a Christian?
If you answered yes to more than 2 of those questions, please know we had no choice but to report you for Domestic Terrorism. Please find solace with a piece of frozen Bank Account.
Make screening job applicants much quicker. Get those that qualify for jobs to get busy right away destroying your business.
Not having a Mental Illness, is a Mental Illness.
Sheetz Son.
Yes, like those normal/healthy people without the dangerous “serum” injections, being the cause of CV-19 spreading ???
Yep, blame the bad effects of the serum on the people who didn’t take it. Makes perfect sense unless you say it out loud.
when insanity is deemed normal, lunatics are in charge.
Lunatics or else satanists
I am a born cynic. However even i was surprised at how readily most adults swallowed the covid lies. Perhaps the Elites are right,and the herd does need a good thinning.
Nothing to see here…just more DOJ lawfare against anyone not supporting the 80 million vote fantasy…
Soon to be the 107 million vote reality!
Homeland Security. Obama Care. Stolen elections. Diversity-Equity-Inclusion. Compulsory Masking. Churches and Business Closed. Mandatory vaccinations with dangerous vaccines. Cashless Society. etc.etc.etc. Uncle Sam is prepared to burn down the Republic to save it.
If we are all criminals by right of serf-citizenship, then perhaps we need to bring out the violent and non-violent stickers.
The stickers will not tell much on its own, but it reveals a lot about the individual who wears it. Really the sticker wears them, in a form of reversal.
Street smarts for the color blinded SOBs, who want to find out, and then ask questions later, if they survived…
I am very sure the answer to every Q+A session is:
“white man.. exists, we have a problem, solution is to eliminate the problem”
I am starting to think nuclear warheads are built just for our country. Why else would god want powerful bombs flying around in the air?
Wellll… I somehow fail to give a Sheetz, if convicted felons can’t get hired in a venue in which cash is handled by employees.