Possible Discrimination Case?

[blanther]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Ohio

I am from Ohio and I was recently offered a job in Tennessee. However, during my background check a speeding ticket I received in 2012 showed up as a minor misdemeanor. All speeding tickets are recorded as a minor misdemeanors in Ohio. My speeding ticket was not for reckless driving or anything it was just a basic speeding ticket. The offered position has nothing to do with driving. I find it hard to believe that nobody at a company with 62000 employees has ever gotten a speeding ticket. I feel I am being unjustly discriminated against simply because my ticket was issued in Ohio and not another state where speeding is classified as a traffic violation. Am I right in thinking that is discrimination? Is it possible i have a case?

 

[ecmst12]

It may be discrimination, but it's not illegal discrimination. "People who have received speeding tickets" is not a protected class.

 

[blanther]

Okay, maybe not discrimination, but if two employees both have a speeding ticket and one is let go because theirs was issued in a certain state doesn't have any grounds for a case?

 

[Proserpina]

Okay, maybe not discrimination, but if two employees both have a speeding ticket and one is let go because theirs was issued in a certain state doesn't have any grounds for a case?

That apparently isn't the situation here though.

You were never an employee.

 

[cbg]

but if two employees both have a speeding ticket and one is let go because theirs was issued in a certain state doesn't have any grounds for a case?

No. "People whose speeding ticket was issued in a certain state" is not a characteristic protected by law. Therefore EVEN IF YOU WERE IN THAT SITUATION which you are not, it would not be grounds for any kind of "case" except one to receive unemployment.

"Geographic discrimination" is legal. They are completely free to refuse to hire you because your speeding ticket was issued in Ohio. You have no grounds for any kind of legal action. At all. Period. Even if.

Is that now perfectly clear to you?