Principals may prefer to hire graduates of teaching colleges, he writes, but they should have the option to hire other outstanding applicants as well.

There are also some other cases of hiring applicants of low technical capabilities, or rejecting those of high technical capabilies.

State law requires casinos to do routine background checks on prospective employees, and the casinos may legally refuse to hire applicants with gambling debts.

The institute will also refuse to hire applicants who are infected with the AIDS virus.

Others have determined that religious institutions can refuse to hire applicants whose views on abortion differ from theirs.

Still, federal law prohibits companies from hiring or rejecting applicants based solely on their credit.

Consequently, agencies may hire applicants for attorney positions without following the civil service hiring procedures and qualification standards normally used for competitive service jobs.

Charges of records destruction and of pressuring city officials into hiring politically connected applicants certainly need more investigation.

In the past, Congress tried subsidizing employers to hire the unemployed, but the policy backfired because employers wouldn't hire applicants stigmatized by government subsidies.

The background check is already required, but under the present system security companies can hire applicants and send them out on assignments while the investigation is being done.