I have not witnessed this asked as part of PRIA; that's an HR question. I spent 3 months researching PRIA for an editorial I did in the November issue of Professional Pilot magazine (being mailed as I write this.) I've become a bit of a SME on it lately. This sounds like a scare tactic.

The truth is PRIA relates to pilot competency items. If you got caught stealing from the company soda machine you would not be eligible for re-rehire either but that has no correlation with flying ability. PRIA was designed to prevent poor/incompetent pilots from leaving one company and then getting hired by another without due diligence by the latter. If you don't subscribe to the magazine I'll send you a PDF if you PM me. I provide the historical reasons for PRIA as well as a look at the new electronic PRIA that has yet to be fully implemented.

Here's a good start: http://www.faa.gov/pilots/lic_cert/p...OIA_and_PA.pdf