'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them

Re:'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them by hmmmhmmhm on Thursday December 18, 2025 @04:23AM (#46310551)

If you make such request, how can you enforce to get all of the comms? I'm curious, would some government institution step in and audit their mail servers, slack channels, google hangouts and all other channels to obtain all of the information?

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Re:'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them by pjc50 on Thursday December 18, 2025 @05:14AM (#46310882)

The next stage of complaint is actually the local Information Commissioner.

Companies will usually comply with this, because it's very difficult to instruct staff to not comply with the law without leaving any records or risking one of them leaking it. However they will check what the legal minimum is and do that.

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Re:'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them by throw3e98 on Thursday December 18, 2025 @04:30AM (#46310591)

I take it you are unfamiliar with the legal process of "discovery" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_(law)

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Re:'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them by hmmmhmmhm on Thursday December 18, 2025 @04:46AM (#46310684)

I wonder, is there a precedence of applicant dragging the company to court over their response to such request?

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Re:'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them by throw3e98 on Saturday December 20, 2025 @12:01PM (#46337584)

Yes, it's very common when dealing with smaller businesses that don't have great legal compliance to get a court order forcing production of documents

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