Application work is like a toilet?Lawyer: job seekers have the right to refuse to answer

Jimu Journalist Zhan Yan

Recently, some netizens posted that when a company in Changsha, Hunan, the title included privacy issues including toilet and sleeping time, which made people feel unhappy. On the 20th, some lawyers said that the information had obviously involved personal privacy, and job seekers had the right to refuse to answer.

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In the interview questions on the Internet, there are multiple questions that seem to have nothing to do with job search. For example: "If you have a date at 3 pm, when will you usually go out?" "Is it like a large toilet at home or outside? Is there regularly? How long does it take?" And so on.

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When recruiting these questions, many netizens felt that some of them were incredible, and some people thought that this was personal privacy, and the company had no right to ask and interfere.

Jimu Journalists learned that the company participating in the interview was a local business information consulting company in Changsha, which is mainly engaged in the automotive aftermarket field. The company's person in charge previously said in an interview with the media that the test question was a general test question. There was no standard answer, and the candidate could not answer.

On the morning of the 20th, Jimu Journalists had repeatedly called the company's person in charge and failed to connect.

"It has a certain percentage of the company's companies using this test question." Huang Kai (a pseudonym), an expert in a human resources industry for many years, told Jizhu Journalist that this kind of test questions are generally used in some standardization and promotionalization. During the customer service category recruitment process.

Although there is no standard answer to the test questions, there will still be some directionality, such as whether you can obey management and whether it can be cultivated for a long time. Huang Kai said that at present, this kind of test questions are relatively low -end. Some companies that are not very professional and direct will consider, but because such issues involve personal privacy, there is still room for comprehensive space.

Lawyer Lan Tianbin, a partner of Jiangsu Faide Dongheng Law Firm, said that citizens have the right to privacy and involve personal privacy such as toilet habits and sleep habits. According to the "Civil Code", natural people have the right to privacy. Any organization or individual shall infringe on the privacy of others in the methods of stabbing, invasion, leakage, and openness.

When recruiting, enterprises should pay attention to the privacy of job seekers, and job seekers have the right to refuse to answer improper privacy questions involving privacy.

In addition, Yang Caiguang, a lawyer of Liaoning Changxin Law Firm, believes that when the company collects relevant information about employees, in addition to being agreed by the collector, it should also abide by the relevant provisions of the Personal Information Protection Law, through relevant rules and regulations and corresponding technical protection protection Measures ensure that information is used for working purposes, to prevent or leak personal privacy and personal information, and even be sold by illegal personnel.

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