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Will states outlaw demanding online passwords from employees?
About a year, I wondered whether employers should ever require job applicants to divulge Facebook passwords. Ultimately, I concluded then — and still believe now — that while employers may choose to use social media as part of a background-check process, you’re playing with fire if you start asking job applicants to divulge social-media passwords to make it easier to vet them.
Two states are now taking steps to make it illegal to force job candidates to reveal online user-names and passwords. One of those states is taking it one step further…
What two states and what they doing?!? (And what’s with that creepy image on the right). Aaaaah!!!! Click through to find out…
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