{"id":7529,"date":"2009-11-14T09:07:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T17:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=7529"},"modified":"2009-11-14T09:07:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T17:07:40","slug":"u-of-akron-rethinks-hiring-policy-that-could-ask-for-dna-sample","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/11\/u-of-akron-rethinks-hiring-policy-that-could-ask-for-dna-sample\/","title":{"rendered":"U. of Akron Rethinks Hiring Policy That Could Ask for DNA Sample"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/U-of-Akron-Rethinks-Hiring\/49090\/?sid=at&#038;utm_source=at&#038;utm_medium=en\">U. of Akron Rethinks Hiring Policy That Could Ask for DNA Sample<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The University of Akron may soon revise a controversial policy that says new hires, at the university&#8217;s discretion, may be asked to submit a DNA sample or fingerprints for a federal criminal-background check.<\/p>\n<p>Ted A. Mallo, vice president and general counsel at Akron, plans to recommend to the institution&#8217;s Board of Trustees that references to DNA testing be stripped from the new policy on criminal-background checks and replaced with language that would put new hires on notice that law-enforcement agencies may require them to provide &#8220;additional information&#8221; for such checks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: U. of Akron Rethinks Hiring Policy That Could Ask for DNA Sample The University of Akron may soon revise a controversial policy that says new hires, at the university&#8217;s discretion, may be asked to submit a DNA sample &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/11\/u-of-akron-rethinks-hiring-policy-that-could-ask-for-dna-sample\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2276],"tags":[6445,4703,6444],"class_list":["post-7529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-working-conditions","tag-dna-samples","tag-hiring","tag-u-of-akron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7589,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529\/revisions\/7589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}