This document provides information regarding employers' obligations to not discriminate against job applicants and employees because of their criminal history. This webpage contains resources for job applicants and employees with an arrest or conviction record, and employers who are considering whether to hire them.Applied for a job but experienced unfair treatment due to your criminal conviction? Get a review with discrimination lawyers at Nisar Law Group, P.C.. If you ask applicants for criminal history information, consider waiting until later in the hiring process to do so. If you believe you have a criminal record discrimination case, you will need to prove the employer was discriminatory regarding your record. The EEOC enforces federal laws designed to protect you against employment discrimination because of different protected categories. The main issue for employees seeking to claim discrimination is whether use of the background check is true blanket or only selective. Regarding criminal record discrimination, employers may not discriminate against job applicants with similar criminal records based on protected classes. Out of desperation and to tell you a little about the struggles of reentering society as a convicted felon.