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Originally Posted by Chill Cosby
Show me, if you can, where an employer is forbidden to hire based on the educational institution of the prospective employee, or past examples of poor ethical behaviour that would conflict with the current job to which they are applying?
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I don't know the answer to this, but you've stated the question in a manner that probably wouldn't result in the correct legal answer-- though you could try to advocate it that way.
Discrimination based on religious grounds is prohibited, and I don't think that just because it is the institution attended, not necessarily the person themselves, that was the trigger for the employer's distaste, results in insulating the potential employer from a successful claim. It is the religious view attributed to the person who attended the school in issue, in the most discriminatory sense... this employer said, you attended there, therefore you must be like them because you are all the same. That's exactly what discrimination is about.