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Recruiting and hiring — Georgia

The hiring process is one of the most important processes in building your workforce and, ultimately, a successful business. However, the numerous potential legal pitfalls make the hiring process one of the most sensitive and potentially dangerous areas of the employer-employee relationship.

Recruiting tools available to employers

There are several avenues available for recruiting applicants for a job position, including:

  • internal job postings
  • employee referral programs
  • advertisements
  • the use of professional employment and temporary employment agencies
  • recruitment programs at educational institutions and community organizations
  • employment-search websites.

Regardless of whether an employer utilizes internal or external methods of attracting candidates, any job postings or advertisements should be carefully drafted to avoid any indication of discrimination. Postings and advertisements that are not crafted carefully may give rise to claims of discrimination, even unintentionally, if they refer to:

  • race
  • sex
  • religion
  • national origin
  • age
  • disability

About the authors and editors

About the Firm - Troutman Pepper

An HR audit snapshot — Georgia

An introduction - features of the HR Library

Background checks — Georgia

Benefits — Georgia

Celebrations in the workplace — Georgia

Child labor — Georgia

Compliance thresholds — Georgia

Disabilities and reasonable accommodation — Georgia

Disaster planning — Georgia

Discipline — Georgia

Discrimination — Georgia

Diversity in the workplace — Georgia

Drugs, alcohol and tobacco — Georgia

Family and medical leave — Georgia

Federal contractors and affirmative action — Georgia

Health insurance continuation coverage — Georgia

Health insurance portability and privacy — Georgia

Health insurance reform — Georgia

Immigration — Georgia

Independent contractors — Georgia

Military leave — Georgia

Other types of leave — Georgia

Pandemic outbreaks — Georgia

Performance evaluations — Georgia

Personnel files — Georgia

Plant closings and mass layoffs — Georgia

Policies and procedures manuals — Georgia

Politics in the workplace — Georgia

Posting requirements

Privacy rights — Georgia

Protecting electronic information — Georgia

Public employers — Georgia

Recordkeeping requirements

Recruiting and hiring — Georgia

Restrictive covenants, trade secrets, and intellectual property — Georgia

Safety and health — Georgia

Social media — Georgia

Telecommuting — Georgia

Temporary, leased and franchise employees — Georgia

Termination — Georgia

The Georgia Chamber of Commerce

Unemployment insurance — Georgia

Unions — Georgia

Wages and hours — Georgia

Whistleblower protections — Georgia

Workers' compensation — Georgia

Workplace harassment — Georgia

Workplace investigations — Georgia

Workplace violence — Georgia