BREAKING NEWS – Washington, D.C. – The new Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s guidelines warn businesses about rejecting applicants who have committed a crime and recommend they eliminate policies that “exclude people from employment based on a criminal record.” Being emphatically backed by the ACLU, the EEOC also stated that fire departments nationwide are some of the worst offenders of these discriminatory practices, and have often even refused to give job interviews to convicted arsonists.