I had someone apply for a job through a recruiter at my company and passed the interview with flying colors. However, it has come across after the interview that they may not have the legal ability to work. The company I work for is audited regularly, so I can’t have hiring them swept under the rug.
How do I deal with this without jepordizing the applicant?
You talk to your legal and hr team not internet randoms.
You have 2 options.
- Don’t hire them as they are unable to work in your country.
- Talk with your hr and legal teams about sponsoring their visa. This is quite common and something that an outside org can facilitate for you.
Not hire them if they’re actually unable to prove their right to work. Lol.
Yeah, but I’m trying to keep this interaction from being a red flag.
A red flag for who? The applicant? Your company?
“We are unable to employ you because you failed to prove your right to work in the United States of America”. Could be a trump goon as well. Wouldn’t put it past him.
Your first instinct is that an assumed illegal immigrant is a trump goon?
I wouldn’t put it past the trump administration to employ people to refuse to show right documentation to see if a business is hiring illegal immigrants or not
They definitely wouldn’t, but even if they did……people that do not have the right to work in the country should not be working in the country.
I really hope you mean to say “hiring” instead of “hitting”
The simple answer is just don’t hire them, and don’t give any reason.
Yeah, I am hiring. I edited this.
My issue is trying to unwind this as humanely as possible for the applicant.
Unless there’s some method for you to help them become eligible to work in your country, you legally need to put the company’s safety first. If you give different reason to hide things you could be exposing your company to liability, so the safest option for both the company and for the applicant is for you to straight up ghost them.
Bro this is simple. Just say we can’t hire u as u have not proven your right to work in this country. U don’t need to pussyfoot around the issue or let them down slowly. Just drop the truth and move on. Ur over-thinking a simple thing.
I’ve always been asked to show I’m authorized to work whenever I work. Isn’t this true for all jobs?
This post (op) seems likes bait imo.
Unless your boss is hiring under the table, I can’t see see how the normal HR hiring process wouldn’t weed out someone not authorized to work.
Maybe do your job and let HR do theirs?
My post isn’t bait. We’ve gone through the process with HR and then found that the applicant may not have work authorization.
