Stamford-based telecommunications company Frontier Communications Corp. was included in Vice President Joseph Biden”™s recently released report titled “Ready to Work: Job-Driven Training and American Opportunity.”
President Barack Obama requested such a report during his 2014 State of the Union address.
Frontier signed on to assist with the “Best Practices on Recruiting and Hiring the Long-Term Unemployed” report with several other companies in January.
The report said in part:
“Years before its CEO signed the best-practices pledge, Frontier was alert to eliminating hiring screens, such as credit checks, that could inadvertently disadvantage the long-term unemployed. Removing the credit checks had no negative effect, a fact the company recently proved by reviewing hires who would have been ”˜screened out”™ had a credit check policy been in place. Looking at 30 hires, 95 percent of those hired would have failed a credit check. This talent would have been lost due to a screen with no bearing on a position”™s job qualifications or the applicant”™s performance.”
Frontier is a member of the national Platform to Employment, a program to help long-term unemployed workers get back to work, and participates in other best-practices initiatives.
Cecilia K. McKenney, executive vice president of human resources and administrative services for Frontier, said, “Frontier is committed to creating ”˜upskill”™ opportunities for American workers and employers.”
McKenney cited Frontier”™s relationship with Bridgeport-based The WorkPlace, one of five Workforce Development Boards in Connecticut, as an example of “a great way to prepare people for careers while strengthening the workforce for employers.”
Frontier employs 13,700 in 27 states.
