On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 01:55:01PM -0500, Nicholas Wheeler wrote:
Ideal candidate will only use real sugar in his/her coffee. Ideal
candidate will also like coffee.
Gregory
So is it legal to say, "Ideal candidate will be heterosexual."?
Heh. You could probably be successfully sued for hiring discrimination for
any job requirement or "ideal" feature that wasn't demonstratably related
to the performance of the job.
Ones like sexual orientation, marital status, race or ethnicity have extra
protections to basically try and keep you from even justifying them.
Demanding a non-smoker is probably on pretty shaky legal ground.
The interviewing guidelines we have at work have an amazing list of
questions we are not to ask, even if they just give a hint at possible
discrimination: "What kind of name is ___", or "Was that a Catholic
school?"
Dave
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