Canan employer retracta job offerafter telling me I have the job?
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Canan employer retracta job offerafter telling me I have the job?
I applied for a job through a hospital here and on their website it asked if you had ever been in trouble with the law within the last 7 years. I answered no as I only was in trouble with the law at age 14. I was told that I had the job and that everything came back OK. A week later after I had given my 2-weeks notice at my other job I was told that I did not get the job because something showed up. How can something from a minor show up? They said that it was due to it being a barrier crime.
Asked on August 9, 2010 under Employment Labor Law, Washington
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 13 years ago | Contributor
If you had been in legal trouble at age 14 and it did come up during a background check for some reason, then that would be more than adequate grounds to retract the job offer on at least two possible grounds:
1) the offense was within the last 14 years, since in that case, you would have been caught in a misrepresenation on the employment application--and misrepresenting on an employment application is always good grounds to terminate employment or w/draw a job offer
2) the crime was something that would give a hospital legitimate pause in hiring you; e..g something to do with narcotics or controlled substances, with identify theft, with violence (and your job involves patient contact), sexual assault, etc.
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