Goal:
We call on state and federal lawmakers to introduce legislation that prohibits employers from requiring a LinkedIn profile or any other mandatory social media account as a condition for job application or employment.

Description:
Applying for a job should depend on your qualifications, your skills, and your professional experience—not your willingness to maintain a public social media profile.
Increasingly, employers are making a LinkedIn URL a mandatory field on job application forms. If you don't have one, you literally cannot hit "submit." This practice is exclusionary, discriminatory, and wrong.

Why this matters:

• It fuels discrimination: LinkedIn profiles inherently expose photos, names, and graduation years, allowing unconscious or conscious bias regarding age, race, and gender to screen out candidates before the interview stage.
• It strips away privacy: Job seekers should not be forced to publish their entire employment history and professional network to a public-facing, corporate data aggregator just to feed their families.
• It excludes great workers: Many incredibly talented professionals—especially older workers, trade workers, and privacy-conscious individuals—do not use LinkedIn. They are being locked out of the job market.

A resume and a cover letter should be enough. Let's protect worker privacy and ensure a fair, accessible hiring process for everyone.

Sign this petition to demand that lawmakers protect job seekers and ban mandatory LinkedIn requirements!