Employers cannot withdraw an offer because of information you disclose at that stage, unless it becomes apparent that you will be unable to carry out the essential functions of the job or will be a direct threat to the health or safety of yourself or others, even with reasonable accommodations in place, or that the needed accommodations would represent an "undue hardship" for the employer.
Everything stops when you disclose that you have been hospitalised for mental illness.
INCOME ISSUES If you disclose that you earn twice what the average person in your occupation earns, you may need to document that discrepancy.
For example, if you disclose that you are being treated for epilepsy, a supervisor may worry that you will have a seizure in the lab.
When you talk to them on the telephone, making it the first interview process, you disclose that you're [HIV] positive and there's an instant bond.
Even in the family, if you disclose that you are HIV positive, your people may stop eating with you, they just ignore you saying that you are useless since you can die any time.
For example, if you enter a contract to sell your car to another person but you know that the car does not run and you do not disclose that information in the contract, you have committed fraudulent misrepresentation and the contract may be thrown out.
"If testimonial is affiliated with you in some way, you have to disclose that," says Mary Engle, assistant director of advertising practices at the F.T.C. Engle will not comment on whether the new under-the-radar marketing practices are being investigated.
If, say, you fail to disclose that someone was murdered in your home, you could find yourself in a world of legal hurt that even killing all the lawyers won't mitigate.
John Coffee, a law professor at Columbia University, disagrees: "If your operations are heavily dependent on an individual or business as a leading recruiter, you need to disclose that material fact in financial filings, especially if there have been repeated commercial fraud sanctions".
"I hope that the day will come in your life when you feel able to disclose that information and that may bring some comfort to her bereft family, particularly her mother and father who, after giving evidence, sat in quiet dignity throughout the rest of the trial," he said.
