Background checks are important to the economy because they provide security …show more content…
Most employees in this society will turn down getting a background check because they do not believe it is fair, but if they didn’t have anything bad about their background, then they should not be worried about anything (“Job…”). When you come to think about it, it technically is not that fair, because some people may make one bad mistake in their life and they may have to pay the price for that bad mistake for the rest of their life (“Job…”). The EEOC states the position of a problem in the past is the only thing that matters and it is not, many people in the world do not get second chances for what their background looks like because the EEOC has developed this system where only the “perfect” workers can work (“Job…”). The EEOC expects employers to turn down people because of their background checks which is not right, most people believe that everyone deserves a job and the fact that employers are turning down highly qualified applicants because of maybe one unpaid payment when they were twenty or so, just does not seem right or fair to anyone in this economy (Rosen 371). People need to realize that just because you did something in the past does not mean you are still a bad person, it just means you made a mistake, and mistakes are meant to be