As I said, seems like it's going to waste a lot of company money. Maybe small businesses will take the risk, but big company lawyers are going to be telling the

As I said, seems like it's going to waste a lot of company money. Maybe small businesses will take the risk, but big company lawyers are going to be telling their people to eat the cost. Now you're even setting the basis of the argument that would be used in court, that the company only hired the felon because it was cheaper than finding a new candidate. Imagine if a cashier, who had previously been convicted of assault for the fight you mentioned, gets into a fight with a customer for whatever reason. If you want past criminals to be able to be hired, you need to have the civil legal system fixed so that a company couldn't be sued for hiring one. That's most of the reason why a company doesn't hire past criminals.