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Job screening policy casts too wide a net
Q: We are about to hire a resident manager. We've always had a policy of asking whether applicants have ever been arrested or convicted; if the answer is "yes" to either question, we reject. Why take a chance, is what we figure. Is there anything...Tags: Judges, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Employment Opportunities, Labor Legislation, Criminals
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Soldier's wife ineligible for lease-breaking rule
Q: I'm an active-duty Army sergeant. My wife, who lived in Maryland, and I married last month, and now she'd like to join me at my duty station. But her landlord says that because I wasn't on her lease, he doesn't have to let her out of the lease, and he'...Tags: Justice System, Chicago Housing Authority, Judges
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Beware of lease giving tenant repair duties
Q: The lease for our single-family house specifies that we will do "routine maintenance." The landlord claims that this includes fixing the roof and doing exterior painting. We had no idea that he saw it this way; we were thinking drain repair and so on....Tags: Rentals, Rental Service, Justice System, Judges
Jun 28, 2012
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