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Job applicants and preemployment agreements: what employment counselors need to know
Author(s) -
Soper Barlow,
Bergen C. W.,
Mawer William T.,
Bergen Alison N.,
Rosenthal Gary T.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of employment counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.252
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2161-1920
pISSN - 0022-0787
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1920.2004.tb00890.x
Subject(s) - position (finance) , psychology , sample (material) , phenomenon , career counseling , business , public relations , law , political science , applied psychology , finance , chemistry , physics , chromatography , quantum mechanics
U.S. society is becoming increasingly litigious. Nowhere is this more evident than in the employment process, where preemployment agreements for job applicants are becoming more common. Preemployment agreements require applicants to accept certain terms or provisions before they are offered a position. In this article, the authors describe types of preemployment contracts and legal issues associated with them and present attorney‐selected sample cases to assist employment counselors to better prepare their clients for addressing this legal phenomenon.