A programmer's personal story about finding a job in this economy

Re:A programmer's personal story about finding a job in this... by xsmasher on Friday December 18, 2009 @04:26PM (#1004010)

There's no legal problem that I know of. Outside of D.C. a private employer could hire only Democrats if they want, or only 9/11 truthers.

Here's a awkward chart of protected classes by state: http://www.cga.ct.gov/2003/olrdata/jud/rpt/2003-R-0641.htm

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Re:A programmer's personal story about finding a job in this... by andreyf on Friday December 18, 2009 @04:53PM (#1004065)

I think your reference is only a survey of state laws. Additionally to those, federal law prohibits different kinds of discrimination as well. For example, Title IX [1] protects discrimination on sex in all states. Although political discrimination doesn't seem to fall under any federal law. An interesting discussion of religious versus political discrimination is here: http://lists.ucla.edu/pipermail/religionlaw/1998-August/0129...

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX

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