Homeland Security Position Paper

No, the company should not be able to ask the interview questions given in our case study for a homeland security position. The interview questions asked included personal questions, such as questions about the applicant’s feelings about sex, religion, and political affiliation. The U.S. Privacy Protection Commission states that discrimination based on a candidate’s political affiliations or opinions is not permitted for federal government career service positions, thus the interview questions about political affiliations and opinions can not be asked (Appendix A, 2013). Furthermore, if this homeland security position is under the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Justice policy on nondiscrimination states that there is to be no employment discrimination based on color, race, religion, sexual …show more content…
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 give specific rules and guidelines regarding the use of discriminatory employment tests and selection procedures, including employment tests and selection procedures that are not related to the position itself (Bernardin & Russell, 2013). Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 states that all employment tests and selection procedures must be job-related and align with business necessity, meaning that it is necessary to show that all questions asked must be related to the safe and efficient performance of the homeland security position and be related to the skills needed to perform the homeland security position (Employment Tests, n.d.). There are many interview questions in our case study that are more than likely not related to the safe and efficient performance of the homeland security position of the skills needed to perform the homeland security