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Is this even legal? (employment) I was filling out an application for Coca-Cola for an IT position. It asks me for my SSN, 7 year resident record, 7 year driving record, etc, etc. All on a non-SSL site I might add (which is why my SSN was "avl-on-rqst").
Anon because my employer reads this too
All that leaves me to again wonder about the rumors of Coca-Cola's CIA dealings...
Greg Hurlman
Coca Cola is in trouble at the top. So it's not surprising the head doesn't know what the ass is doing. The mgmt team can't get on the same wave length with regard to succession of their CEO.
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Ask them why they need this information, and let the ACLU know, at http://www.aclu.org.
"I authorise THE FIRM to kill me and my family at any time, now or hereafter, as the need arises."
Herr Herr
Mr Herr, I fear you have limited exposure to the marvels of our various legal systems.
mmm...it depends how your local law covers the disclosure of medical information. In the UK you have to give your doctor permission to disclose - and the equivilant section tends to be written in exactly those terms.
a cynic writes...
In the UK (and I can't imagine it would be any different in the US, but IANAL) you can't sign away your statutory rights. That means that it's impossible to "give up" a right that is enshrined in law. This is true across all types of law, including employment law.
Adrian
Damn. Meant to say "Let us know what THEY said, if you take it up with them."
Adrian
A Dingo Ate My Baby
With HIPA in place in the US it is my understanding that you have to give the doctor permission to talk to anyone about you unless they have a court order. Where I work we frequently request medical documents of our insured (only after they have been in an accident) and they have to tell their doctor to release the specific information we need to us. (Where life gets confusing is in our responsibility to maintain that information.) Now HIPA also results in your health insurance company having a very narrow view of your medical treatments. They are not supposed to be sent lab results or in the case of mental health anything more then a DSM-IV diagnosis. I assume these rights to privacy may degrade with cheeper health insurance where the cheeper it gets the more they have to approve for you and the less personal options you have.
Jeff
Why always IANAL? Why is nobody saying YANAD?
Karel Thönissen (www.garabit.nl)
Because it's too much to ask for?
Adrian
Frenchie
These are pretty standard these days in the US. Firms are scared stiff of hiring someone who was the featured guest on "America's Most Wanted" (which happened once at a company I worked at -- he had kidnapped his children to keep them away from his then-wife).
It sounds normal. I've signed a few documents like that. The purpose is so the company can do a medical check and background check. They're screening you for drugs, etc. As said, companies are normally prohibited from accessing your medical information. You have to sign a waiver for them to access it.
DaveF
I emailed them through their web site, and their HR manager called me this morning. She said that about 80% of their applicants are for positions involving company vehicles or machinery, and for both types a full medical and drug test history is required. She apologized for the confusion, and said that I would not be required to submit to that if my job did not entail the use of vehicles or machinery.
Anon because my employer reads this too
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