Michael J McCafferty wrote:
The ideal candidate have excellent professional and personal
references, never have been convicted of a misdemeanor or felony, is a
non-smoker.
I suggest you go take a quick course on California labor law. You're
going to get in a heap of trouble if you keep this up.
I'm pretty sure you may not discriminate based upon smoking preference.
Now, you can make it sufficiently painful that smokers don't want to
work for you. Obviously, you can choose not to hire someone if you can
tell that they smoke as long as you don't give a reason.
In addition, you cannot a priori ban people who have even been convicted
of felonies let alone misdemeanors. There is a 4 point checklist you
have to go through in order to exclude someone from employment based
upon convictions. In addition, California has some notoriously
byzantine laws about this.
Finally, *never* document auxiliary characteristics that you want or
don't want. It will be the first thing pulled out in an employee lawsuit.
-a
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