Concerns About Clearance Delay Prompted Revocation of Job Offer

In a case now before a Federal court, the U.S. Government says that concerns that a job applicant’s security clearance approval could be delayed because of a sex-change operation justified rescinding a job offer.

A hiring official “had concerns that [the woman’s] gender reassignment would make it a longer process for her to gain a security clearance for the post” and, so, withdrew the offer.

[In mid-September, the Court reportedly ruled in favor of the plaintiff.]

News of the story was also available here and here.

Filed Under: Procedures, Adverse Actions