"Most of the time the intent is not illegal, but applicants will challenge us".
But the rollout of.biz addresses has also been hindered by a lawsuit contending that a preliminary process for distributing the names constituted an illegal lottery because applicants had to pay a fee regardless of whether their application was chosen for a particular name.
To skirt this law, the companies would have to out-and-out violate another: it is illegal to ask applicants about their immigration status — an employer can ask job candidates only if they are authorized to work in the United States.
Over sandwiches and chips, a man from the State Labor Department explained that for those who did not have work authorization yet (the prospects are a mix of authorized workers, illegal immigrants, asylum applicants and citizens), getting a visa to do skilled farm work could prove tricky.
Let's have a lawsuit where all the "different" learners, visionaries, poets, iconoclasts, artists and musicians come together and sue Harvard for giving illegal preference to applicants who brandish their relatively unimportant test scores.
"Some of the questions managers may ask may be perceived as illegal by the applicant," said Penny Powell, director of human resources at the company.
The makers of the MBTI clearly state in their ethical guidelines that "It is unethical, and in many cases illegal, to require job applicants to take the Indicator if the results will be used to screen out applicants". Because of their shared methodological limitations, the same restrictions should apply to the JPTW.
One of the questions for the E.E.O.C. is whether excluding unemployed applicants is illegal.
The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission spoke to this problem last year when it reaffirmed a longstanding ruling that it was illegal to screen out applicants unless the offense was directly related to the job sought.
And then in 1950 came the denouement: The State of New Jersey made it illegal to ask an applicant to state his religion, the Class of '52 demanded 100percentt bicker and the clubs capitulated, and after 28 years Heermance retired.
