Employee Felony Conviction Okay Now

[zonecontroller]

Airline reinstates clerk who was prisoner
03/10/04

Associated Press
Trotwood, Ohio - An airline has reinstated a reservation clerk fired nearly three years ago when it was revealed that he had served time in prison.

Abdur-Rauf Rashid, of this Dayton suburb, is back on the job as a US Airways reservation clerk. The airline fired Rashid, a 17-year employee, in July 2001, after he published "How To Survive and Excel in Prison (Within and Without)" as a way to help prisoners and their relatives.

The airline said he lied on his application by not disclosing that he spent 13 years in federal prison for armed bank robberies to support a drug habit.

Federal arbitrator Margery F. Gootnick in June ordered Rashid reinstated to his $50,000-a-year job, but left it up to US Airways and the Communications Workers of America, Rashid's union, to negotiate the details.

His wife, LaTonya Rashid, said she had remained optimistic throughout the three-year struggle. "I pray there's justice for the ex-offender who has satisfactorily served his time," she said. "His crime is 30 years old, [but] he's still paying."




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[hopethingswillbeok]

I suppose he gets back pay, So now the law says it ok to lie on your application. Sometimes I wonder what this World is coming to.

 

[matika]

Why...??? What is the logic behind the arbitrator's ruling?

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Sometimes I just have no words.

 

[MCORORES]

$50.000 a year????? Great reporting....I have topped out and do not make even that amount!!!!!

 

[Trin03]

More so than event he fact that he lied on his application is this..... why was it not discovered in his so called background check?

That is a bigger concern.

 

[sentrido]

More so than event he fact that he lied on his application is this..... why was it not discovered in his so called background check?

That is a bigger concern.

Does US do background checks on "reservation clerks"?

 

[Trin03]

More so than event he fact that he lied on his application is this..... why was it not discovered in his so called background check?

That is a bigger concern.

Does US do background checks on "reservation clerks"?

"Supposedly" they do. But who is to say or know for sure. Years ago when I was first picked to work res... they told me after the 2nd interview that right then and there I had to go and take a drug test... no problem and then that that the final hurdle was a background check.

I had been a stay at home mom for a small number of years.... the "background" check people called me and asked me for the address and phone number for a prior employee before I was at home!!!! I gave her the info.

I am a honest person and would not lie, in my opinion too easy to find it out and plus it is just not right. But had I been unsavery?...............Who could know?

The thing is, I believe the few corporations, including airlines took background checks to heart before 9/11 or even afterward for the feds. The federal governement, obviously, they just got thorugh firing a bunch of people for lieing about similar things...felonies, arrests, etc.... and this is the feds and their screening people!!!

Whereas, I am one who believes that people can change and sit up stratight and fly right, I also believe that everyone should have an opportunity to prove themselves. But some of these companies do not even check that far to see if there is something to give a person a break about!

 

[zonecontroller]

he spent 13 years in federal prison for armed bank robberies to support a drug habit.
I don't know if you ever had anyone stick a gun to your head in a hold up.
(armed robbery) I have, many years ago. I will never forget it.
I totally stand by the Company on this issue. This person didn't steal a candy bar from a store. He held up a gun and Robbed a Bank. I don't care if the gun was loaded or not. A Felon is a Felon!

 

[hopethingswillbeok]

The sad part it clearly states he got his job back. There are people out of a job, layed off, but we let a felon have his job back, that is a joke. A felon that lied at that.

 

[hopethingswillbeok]

I want hate to make a reservation with him and have to give him my credit card number.

 

[700UW]

People change, he paid his debt to society, I don't condone him lying, but everyone deserves a second chance in life.

No one on this board was or is his judge or jury and maybe you all need to get the facts before you pass judgment on someone who has rehabilitated himself.

 

[hopethingswillbeok]

Why did he lie on his application? A liar and theif go hand and hand.

 

[zonecontroller]

People change, he paid his debt to society, I don't condone him lying, but everyone deserves a second chance in life.

No one on this board was or is his judge or jury and maybe you all need to get the facts before you pass judgment on someone who has rehabilitated himself.
700UW It is clear you were not in the bank that day.
If you are ever involved on the recieving end of a strong armed robbery. I think you would change your mind in reference to a second chance.

 

[700UW]

With that mentality, you would never give someone a chance to redeem themselves. You know there are convicted felons who do change their life around and make a contribution to society.

 

[PITMTC]

The union plays a role in this issue also. How many of us know personally, people who have gotten their jobs back after false OJI injuries, other felony crimes, including weapons, drugs? Why do they pull all the strings to get these people back?
Well that may bring this topic to other issues like power in numbers and other deals that the company/union make when they bring people back.

Note to self: Don't get started.