Is it legal to not consider someone for employment because they don’t meet requirements that were never listed on paper application?
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Is it legal to not consider someone for employment because they don’t meet requirements that were never listed on paper application?
If an employer police department in this case posts a job opening on heir Facebook page stating that the person must meet these requirements but no requirements are actually on the paper application, is it legal to not consider someone for the position when nothing was stated on paper? My husband applied for a police officer position for the Logan Ohio policedepartment. And they re-opened their acceptance of applications after the closing date because nobody met all the requirements that were not listed on the actual application in the first place. The only place the requirements were ever listed was on their Facebook page.
Asked on February 8, 2018 under Employment Labor Law, Ohio
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 6 years ago | Contributor
Hiring, like all employment, is "at will" in this country. That means that a police department or any employer can decide who to consider for employment and who to not consider (and then, of those they consider, who to hire and who to not hire). Regardless of whether criteria or qualifications were listed or not, or what they were, the P.D. could decide to not consider your husand or if they did consider them, to not hire.
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