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Derek Thompson - Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees business coverage for the website.
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He is a visiting research fellow at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget at the New America Foundation. Derek has also written for Slate, BusinessWeek, and the Daily Beast. He has appeared as a guest on radio and television networks, including NPR, the BBC, CNBC, and MSNBC.

The Interview Question That's Illegal in 10 Different Ways

By Derek Thompson
Aug 11 2010, 12:58 PM ET Comment

Find Law blog lists ten interview questions employers cannot ask by law. Each illegal query appears in the following question. Count them all!

Have you been to a hospital or rehab clinic recently to treat either your wife's, your husband's, your soon-to-be-born child's, or your own, past or impending mental or physical disability, or have you deliberately abstained from such a visit due to your typical twentysomething WASPish indifference to incurring personal injury?


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