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- Title
Ban the Address: Combating Employment Discrimination Against the Homeless.
- Authors
GOLABEK-GOLDMAN, SARAH
- Abstract
This Note presents a study of obstacles to employment faced by homeless job applicants and offers potential solutions. Homeless job applicants confront discrimination when they provide the address of a shelter or do not have an address to provide on applications. Advocates should seek to protect homeless job applicants by encouraging businesses, nonprofits, and government agencies to provide homeless applicants with addresses or P.O. boxes. Most significantly, the proposed "Ban the Address" campaign would discourage employers from inquiring about an applicant's address or residency history until after granting a provisional offer of employment. Advocacy efforts such as these can serve as a foundation for successful legal claims under new homeless person's bills of rights, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. This Note explains why requesting residency information might be deemed illegal under both state and federal causes of action. A combination of both legal and nonlegal tactics has the best chance of permitting homeless job applicants to obtain employment and to regain self-sufficiency.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HOMELESS persons; ANTI-discrimination laws; LABOR laws; NONPROFIT organizations; GOVERNMENT agencies; JOB applications; AMERICANS with Disabilities Act of 1990
- Publication
Yale Law Journal, 2017, Vol 126, Issue 6, p1788
- ISSN
0044-0094
- Publication type
Article