Employment ethics: Privacy and hiring decisions.

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Employment ethics: Privacy and hiring decisions.

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Human rights legislation in Australia and New Zealand places restrictions on the information an employer may require from job applicants as a basis for hiring. Some of these restrictions help to maintain the privacy of applicants and protect them from unethical discrimination in the job market. In this paper I argue there is other information that employers may potentially require of job applicants that raises similar privacy and discrimination concerns. This involves information about person...

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Research paper

Research format

Conference paper

Date created

2006

Creator

Scholes, V.

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http://hdl.handle.net/11072/320

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Employment / Ethics / Privacy / Hiring / Applied ethics / Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts - General / Human Resources Management / Industrial Relations / Applied Ethics (incl. Bioethics and Environmental Ethics)

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