Q: Can an employer legally black list you from obtaining employment without valid reasons ?
I have assumed that I was being black listed from apply to Amazon warehouse facilities . I was scheduled to begin working back in May and because of pandemic I missed my start day. I was reassured it wasn't a problem by their Reps. I week later l received a termination letter stating that I resigned from the job.. I called there support team they said its not because of anything I did and the letter doesn't specify a reason. I never volunteered to quit and was assured by a rep from amazon that's I am able to re-apply. Since that's incident, I have been on their career website unable to apply because its states they have no job openings. I have video recoded the two profiles and a conversation with the Amazon representative. Is my situation valid enough to have it corrected legally?
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Yes. An employer can determine to never again consider you for employment unless the reason for that action is your participation in some form of legally protected conduct. For example, legally protected conduct is conduct that the law specifically says you have a right to do, such as filing a workers compensation claim or reporting unlawful workplace harassment. Blacklisting you because of a mess up related to your start date is not legally protected, and if the company wants to decide to never hire you again because of that, it may.
Good luck to you.
A:
I agree with Neil about your legal rights, but, I note that you have ASSUMED that you are black listed for not returning on the start date. It does not seem like a problem that the employer would consider worth refusing to rehire an otherwise valuable employee, so I wonder if there is more to this story than you are telling in this public post. (which may be a good reason to keep it simple.
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