This is an area of amazing confusion with regards to which state laws provide what. What I am wondering is do any of them actualy work? I live in Massachusetts which will not even define the door slammed closed as being discrimination.
However many states have enacted positive changes.
Washington appears to limit background checks to 10 years. Hawaii seems to forbid any consideration of criminal record unless it somehow relates to the job. NY and PA at least appear to define the action of outright rejection as being discrimination. But do any of these states rules actualy work or do employers just pull the checkpoint file and quicly reject anyone whos file gets a hit (erroneous or not)?
Anyone have any POSITIVE experiences with these or other state laws?
I have a felony conviction from 1979 which now places me in the untouchable class, work history means nothing, now cant get a job shining shoes. If I were to lean on legislators to follow a model which one if any actualy work?

