New Web Hiring Rules Cause Corporate Consternation

• Posted by Geoffrey G. Gussis on December 12th, 2005


• Filed in Employment Law

Law.com reports on a new federal rule that could impose significant new obligations on your company:

"Employment attorneys say corporate America is having a panic attack over a new federal rule that requires federal contractors to keep better track of whom they hire from the Internet.

On Feb. 6, all federal contractors will be required to have new record-keeping protocols in place that will let the government know, among other things, exactly what Internet resumes they looked at, whom they hired — and didn’t — and the race and gender of qualified applicants. For the first time, corporations will have clear guidelines in place dictating which Internet applicants they have to keep records of.

The goal is to make sure companies are not discriminating against minorities and women who apply for jobs on the Internet."

Link: Legal Technology - New Web Hiring Rules Cause Corporate Consternation.