Originally Posted by
Elevation
I don't accept this as a simple solution to GTI3591, however. HR departments including ours have been doing better background checks on guys and reading documents that DB claimed not to understand. Also, tax records and other things would have revealed his previous employment that wasn't listed. We dropped the ball. Others have made these points better and earlier than me here, so I won't belabor them any more.
State labor laws increasingly prevent employers from digging too deeply or too broadly into applicant's backgrounds. I'd bet that few states would allow an employer to demand your tax returns.
Google "ban the box". Fortunately TSA/SIDA would not be limited by that kind of silliness.