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Can you refuse to hire candidates who are currently unemployed?

03/01/2011

You may have seen it in the classifieds: "Must be currently working." Is that legal? Some state legislatures want to prohibit "unemployment discrimination." And given the nature of post-recession America's out-of-work population, there may be an even more compelling reason not to exclude the unemployed.

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