California | Employment Law
To make a long story short; I was offered employment; I was told I needed to pass a background check and a drug test, initially; come to find out; other than for reasonable "checks" such as a urine test for drug use, a work history check and a criminal / financial check, I was told specifically told that a complete physical needed to be performed and that I needed to pass the physical to come on-board, essentially to be hired, officially; the physical consists of blood-work, a chest x-ray, breathing tests, heart scan - check and hearing and vision test among other things; is this legal for a company to REQUIRE and MANDATE that a qualified candidate who already went through the grueling interview process and was offered the position to under-go such private medical tests and for that matter be judged as to whether I can be "officially" hired and or to come on-board??? I am not a lawyer, but there seems to something fundamentally wrong here....
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