Legal Question in Employment Law in Minnesota

access forms & submit application without providing SS#

Employers and employment databases require applicants to provide their social security number in order to:

--access applicant qualification/screening tests

--access the application process/forms

--submit resumes to company whatever the location

--post resumes for employer viewing

I understand employers (legally) can't require an individual's SS# until time of job offer, acceptance,hire.

Why does this continue, and/or how can an individual(s) get around/avoid providing this information yet:

-post their application

-apply for positions with companies, facilities, schools, job data bases whose systems/application processes are set up this way?

(Increasingly companies& facilities accept ONLY on-line/kiosk or employment facility submissions)

To do so places--name removed--person at risk of:

--identity theft

--employers using application processes to add to target

ad lists

--allows employers access to applicant info which:

--invades privacy

--has the potential to be harmful and/or

--excludes persons from consideration

Especially true if middle-age/older as SS# was often required/used in earlier/maybe present years as the identifier# in terms of employee id, driver's license, insurance policy#, etc.

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