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Originally Posted by legion
There is a growing list of questions, either by legislation or case law, that employers are barred from asking, lest they face a discrimination lawsuit.
Some examples of questions employers are legally barred from asking (varies by jurisdiction):
-Do you have a family?
-Are you married?
-Have you ever been arrested?
-Have you ever been convicted of a crime?
-Why were you fired from your last job?
Yet today, employers can be sued when they have employees do things like beat up customers, but their hands are tied on trying to avoid such people in hiring.
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Originally Posted by look 171
What the hell happened to us as a country? How the hell did we get here?
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Where is here exactly? Because we aren't there. Not really. Most of these you can ask. The married and family one is legal to ask, you just can't discriminate based on the answer. Most laws in this vein were created because of discrimination. So the answer to how we sort of got here, but not really because we aren't there, is discrimination.