Originally Posted by
rickair7777
It would depend on state law in the employer's jurisdiction. In many cases not only can they not ask past a certain timeframe (3,5,7,10 years) they also cannot discriminate against past convictions if they do find them. Legally anyway. This can vary with every airline you apply to based on their HQ location.
Although if old convictions were more on the serious side, they might just break the law and risk a lawsuit... some airlines in the past have *really* dug in their heels on their red lines for pilot backgrounds.
But that's for *convictions*. There are not many states left where it's legal to discriminate against prior *arrests*... that gets back to the whole presumed innocent thing. Unless the arrests were for serious stuff like violence, SA, theft, drug dealing, etc. Then again they might just dig in their heels.
I would talk to an employment lawyer in that local jurisdiction... probably need to understand what's going on, so you know how to navigate future job apps.
I’m going to wait and see until I get the background report. If there’s an obvious error in there, then I will try to bring it up to them and hopefully they’ll respond.
Given the current hiring climate, they can be as picky as they want to be.
I certainly won’t litigate this in any way. Hopefully they aren’t viewing me as a liar or evader and they’ll allow me to reapply in six months. I’ll tighten up my application and disclose everything moving forward.