Findings of guilt V current employment

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lpt88

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22 March 2019
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Hey all,

hypothetically speaking if I had committed a crime in 2018 and only this year 2021 finalised it all via the courts and received the following -

-CCO 15 months
-recorded without conviction

crime being ‘obtain property by deception’ whilst working within retail.

since 2020 to present I have been employed with a company within the same field - during hiring I provided genuine references and no questions regarding criminal history were asked.

My question is, if they were to find out, could they terminate me? I understand there are materials discussing employees that commit and are convicted etc DURING their employment, but none regarding crimes done in the past.
Thanks!
 

Rod

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If you have not lied or misled your employer, they may find it hard to dismiss you purely because of past behaviour.