Job Seekers Nab Class Status for Offensive Medical Question Case

California job applicants who say an occupational health screener pressed them to answer offensive and irrelevant medical questions before employers offered them positions can pursue their fair employment suit as a class, a federal judge said.

The newly certified state-law class consists of every worker who applied for a paid position and had to answer U.S. Healthworks Medical Group’s standardized health history questionnaire as part of a pre-placement examination from ...