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Protected Status Do not ask Permissible to ask
Act or Workers’ Disease Act?
Occupational Diseases Act
DRAFT
Credit history/report, unless Unless specifically permitted, do How long have you lived at your
the Employee Credit not ask: current address?
Privacy Act permits a Do you have a good credit
satisfactory credit history to score?
be a job requirement, such
as, the position’s duties Have you been denied a credit
include custody of or card within last 5 years?
unsupervised access to cash Have you ever filed
or marketable assets valued bankruptcy?
at $2,500 or more. 820
ILCS 70/10(b).

Wage or salary history, What is your current This position provides the
including benefits or other wage/salary? following wage/salary, benefits,
compensation, unless: the What was your previous and compensation: [insert
applicant’s wage or salary wage/salary? details]. Does that meet your
history is a matter of public expectations?
record, or is contained in a What benefits or other What are you looking for in
document completed by the compensation do you currently terms of wage/salary, benefits,
applicant’s current or receive? and other compensation for this
former employer and then What benefits or other position?
made available to the public compensation did you previously
by the employer, or then receive?
submitted or posted by the
employer to comply with What was your highest paid
State or federal law; or the position?
applicant is a current This position pays $X; is that
employee applying for a more or less than what you are
position with the same making now?
current employer. 820 ILCS
112/10, amended by P.A.
101-177. For further
discussion see f/n 19 in
policy 5:30, Hiring Process
and Criteria.
Victim of domestic Have you ever requested a
violence or being protected restraining order or order of
under an order of protection protection against your spouse or
other person?
Disability

Inquiries that are likely to elicit information about a disability, before a bona fide job offer is made,
are prohibited. Inquiries about the ability to perform job functions that do not ask about disabilities
are permissible.
Protected Status Do not ask Permissible to ask, provided
all applicants are asked

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