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Blog Post
Legal Rights During the Hiring Process
Posted by: Matthew Terry
January 23, 2008
Topic: Editorial
Job applicants have legal rights even before they become employees. Under federal law, an employer cannot illegally discriminate in its hiring process based on a job applicant's race, national origin, gender, pregnancy, age, disability, or religion. State and local laws may specify additional protected classes based on factors such as the sexual orientation of a job applicant. Employers must abide by anti-discrimination laws at each stage of the hiring process, from placing a job ad, to interviewing, to the final selection of the candidate to be hired.
Nicholson Revell LLP is currently involved in a class action lawsuit with the United States Postal Service over a pattern of discriminatory activity against disabled veterans.
