Labor/Employment
Oct. 13, 2011
Employers looking up job candidates online carry risk
Although employers generally have the power to hire, and not hire, whomever they please, technology is making the process trickier by giving bosses information their lawyers would never have advised them to seek.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
When hiring employees, companies hold the power. They can deny an applicant because he lacks experience. Or because she gets drunk on weekends. Or even because he wears brown shoes when the boss prefers black. But there are limits to what employers can use in hiring decisions: They can't discriminate based on protected classes - a slew of immutable characteristics, including gender, race, disability, religi...
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