Is a tax credit form required for an application?

8 Comments

1. AnonymousAugust 26,2024 at 4:00PM UTC

   The EEOC requires this form for statistical purposes. It is also a required piece of onboarding paperwork, but the form should give you the option to "choose not to answer" or something similar. There are probably additional questions about race, gender, and ability. By law, they cannot use this form for hiring decisions. Most recruiters and hiring managers never see it. The data is used to determine where the company stands with DEI initiatives and allows them to verify/substantiate they are meeting their target of minority hiring practices. Most applications I have done do not allow you to skip this step, so select the "prefer not to answer" option if you don't feel comfortable.

2. AnonymousAugust 30,2024 at 2:49PM UTC

   I love your answer! Unfortunately, I've encountered the same thing as the OP and there was no option to not answer. I abandoned the application right there.

3. AnonymousAugust 30,2024 at 6:27PM UTC

   If that's the case, it wasn't the EEOC form, and you did the right thing.

4. AnonymousAugust 26,2024 at 5:08PM UTC

   If you're in the U.S. no they can't ask you that. In other countries they can.

5. AnonymousAugust 30,2024 at 4:35PM UTC

   Do not fill anything like that out. There are so many scammers presently on LI and they often use any means to find out personal information about you to identity theft you. The list of what you cannot be asked in the interview process is as follows:

   Personal characteristics that are protected by law: race, color, religion, sex, national origin or age.

   Do not provide those items at all. Please report those employers for bias and illegal activity.

6. GirlBossanova934974August 31,2024 at 1:03PM UTC

   I have filled in these forms like this a few times but these forms are STRICTLY optional and should be labeled as such. These forms can help the employer gain a small tax credit. i have never seen anyone ask about age. The vast majority of companies have more common sense than that as that question will invite a ton of lawsuits. And that lawsuit will be an easy victory for most employment lawyers!

7. AnonymousAugust 31,2024 at 8:46PM UTC

   Be careful with these LI job postings. Have you contacted the company itself regarding whether these forms are optional or not? Not the original poster/recruiter, the company itself?

   The reason I asked this is because my son has been applying for remote position too on LI. He was hired to start within 2 weeks and postponed his start date for a month so he could go on vacation first.

   In the meantime he reached out on LI to others who worked at that company and who also lived in the same state to introduce himself. One of them was a director who asked for the recruiter’s, position he was hired for etc…

   That director and the company’s lawyer notified my son that the recruiter was not an employee nor authorized to hire on the company behalf. They were able to track the recruiter’s profile on LI and had LI close fake account.

   My son dodged a bullet there. On his “start date” he would have provided his SSN, bank account info for direct deposit and other personal info.

8. AnonymousSeptember 2,2024 at 1:39PM UTC

   Remote and tax credit is a fraud pattern that obviously shades from I-9 employment verification. That entity may act like you false represent you to fill employment verification, payscale without get your agreement, cash in your paychecks, and filing tax forms. But All those should be done by yourself in person only.

   You don’t want to be blindfolded and being sold by unethical agents, you should always be in loop of direct communicate on payscale, legal docs signing, filing, contracts negotiations, go down to the details.

   I don’t apply remote jobs that simply prevents fraud at beginning. To start as hybrid/on-site helps to build trust between you and employers both side can detect if it is scam or fraud by examine quality of work face to face , attend meetings in person, record keeping auditing.