{"id":806,"date":"2013-12-23T00:23:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T00:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/?p=806"},"modified":"2021-12-21T20:04:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:04:40","slug":"the-risks-of-googling-job-applicants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/the-risks-of-googling-job-applicants\/","title":{"rendered":"The risks of Googling job applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Graham\">Christopher Graham<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Kelly\">Joseph Kelly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/internet-md1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/internet-md1.png\" alt=\"internet-md[1]\" width=\"297\" height=\"276\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-807\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some employers use the internet to learn about job applicants. What employers may not know is that using Google, Facebook or the like for applicant-screening could open them up to discrimination claims. Asking a job applicant or employee for a Facebook password in fact is prohibited under the law of Illinois and many other states as detailed in this recent blog post from Seyfarth Shaw&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laborandemploymentlawcounsel.com\/2013\/11\/with-a-few-clicks-of-the-mouse-you-can-uncover-what-job-applicants-leave-off-their-resumes\/?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pulsenews\">Employment Law Lookout<\/a>. That post also includes suggested best practices for assuring legal compliance including adopting policies, educating employees about them and why they&#8217;re important and, for employers doing business in multiple states, adjusting policies for state specific requirements.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Christopher Graham and Joseph Kelly Some employers use the internet to learn about job applicants. What employers may not know is that using Google, Facebook or the like for applicant-screening could open them up to discrimination claims. Asking a job applicant or employee for a Facebook password in fact is prohibited under the law [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}