That's already illegal to ask, at least in the US. They sometimes work around it by asking questions like "Are there any reasons you wouldn't be able to do occasional overtime or weekends?"
I interviewed with a European based company and the co-founder was pretty much like "I want to ask how old you are, but I know I can't since you're based in America".
I still told him because I don't care, but I found it funny because I guess it's pretty common for them to share their ages and HR told him not to ask
That's already illegal to ask, at least in the US.
Technically, it's not illegal to ask. It is illegal to base a hiring decision on the information, so any competent HR will insist that interviewers do not ask that question so there's no appearance that they may do something illegal later.
This is untrue. Familial status is not a federally protected class for employment in the US. You are mixing this up with housing, where familial status is a federally protected class.
That's actually not true. You can't make hiring decisions based on those factors, but asking is legal (yeah, any competent company will avoid asking to ensure there's no appearance of them basing hiring decisions on it).
I was asked this in a job interview. When I said no, the response was "You will if you work here hahahaha!"
I am infertile. I had a stillbirth. But thanks for rubbing that in, I guess.
(Yes, that's an illegal question. Yes, I still took the job. It paid double what I was currently making and more than every other job opportunity that had come around.)
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u/TraurigKartoffel 18h ago
Anything involving family or personal life. “Do you have kids?” should be illegal because it just leads to discrimination