http://www.businessinsider.com/11-illegal-interview-questions-2013-7
Any questions that reveal your age, race, national origin, gender, religion, marital status and sexual orientation are off-limits.
That means orientation of any kind and marriage to any person. You are not suppose to ask that.
If you feel like telling them about your marriage that is up to you. However they are not suppose to ask you that in an interview or on an application. Its an illegal question.
PS. I didn't mean to negative towards you when I said "fail" as in you're gonna fail or your a failure. I just meant that it wasn't possible. Some people think fail is a negative word and I didn't want my choice of words to give you the wrong idea :)
And they are probably going off the idea that it is a bad idea legally as I said. But it is still not technically illegal as the law never mentions it. I challange you to try to find anything in the US labor laws that say it is illegal to ask about marriage, or anything about gay people at all, I promice you will fail. The labor lawyer in this article breaks it down if you care to read it.
Any questions that reveal your age, race, national origin, gender, religion, marital status and sexual orientation are off-limits.
Sexual orientation means girls, boys, cross-dressers whatever they can not ask. That means it is covered. Its like if you say "No pets allowed" that means anything that can be considered a pet is not allowed. Gender anything that is considered a gender is not allowed. Religion anything that counts as a religion is not allowed. That would mean you are saying that homosexuality is not really sexuality so what is it?
Asking if someone is married,which can be a yes or no question is not guranteed to reveal any of that. There is nothing in the law that says you can't ask the question. There is nothing in the law that says anything about sexual orientation. There is nothing in the law that says you can't ask about sexual orientation. Also the law doesn't allow for age discrimination, but it doesn't say that you can not ask the age of an applicant. Most online applications for most major cooperations can not even be completed with out listing a date of birth.
What the law does say is you can't discriminate based on sex. But it is talking about sex as in gender, not about having sex or sexual orentation, and courts have repeatedly upheld that interpretation. Here is the text of the actual law as it appears on the Government Equal Opportunity Website if you would like to read it for yourself. If you find any of the things you are claiming in feel free to point them out. If you can find the actual text of another federal law that states what you are claiming, feel free to post it. But please stop saythe same thing without actually presenting one law that confirms your claims.
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Any questions that reveal your age, race, national origin, gender, religion, marital status and sexual orientation are off-limits.
That means orientation of any kind and marriage to any person. You are not suppose to ask that.
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If you feel like telling them about your marriage that is up to you. However they are not suppose to ask you that in an interview or on an application. Its an illegal question.
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PS. I didn't mean to negative towards you when I said "fail" as in you're gonna fail or your a failure. I just meant that it wasn't possible. Some people think fail is a negative word and I didn't want my choice of words to give you the wrong idea :)
And they are probably going off the idea that it is a bad idea legally as I said. But it is still not technically illegal as the law never mentions it. I challange you to try to find anything in the US labor laws that say it is illegal to ask about marriage, or anything about gay people at all, I promice you will fail. The labor lawyer in this article breaks it down if you care to read it.
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Any questions that reveal your age, race, national origin, gender, religion, marital status and sexual orientation are off-limits.
Sexual orientation means girls, boys, cross-dressers whatever they can not ask. That means it is covered. Its like if you say "No pets allowed" that means anything that can be considered a pet is not allowed. Gender anything that is considered a gender is not allowed. Religion anything that counts as a religion is not allowed. That would mean you are saying that homosexuality is not really sexuality so what is it?
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Asking if someone is married,which can be a yes or no question is not guranteed to reveal any of that. There is nothing in the law that says you can't ask the question. There is nothing in the law that says anything about sexual orientation. There is nothing in the law that says you can't ask about sexual orientation. Also the law doesn't allow for age discrimination, but it doesn't say that you can not ask the age of an applicant. Most online applications for most major cooperations can not even be completed with out listing a date of birth.
What the law does say is you can't discriminate based on sex. But it is talking about sex as in gender, not about having sex or sexual orentation, and courts have repeatedly upheld that interpretation. Here is the text of the actual law as it appears on the Government Equal Opportunity Website if you would like to read it for yourself. If you find any of the things you are claiming in feel free to point them out. If you can find the actual text of another federal law that states what you are claiming, feel free to post it. But please stop saythe same thing without actually presenting one law that confirms your claims.
http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/titlevii.cfm
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/ask-headhunter-really-illegal-employers-ask-youre-married/