Privacy concerns have to be balanced against "an employer’s need to hire appropriate personnel, manage its operations, and safeguard its business assets and proprietary information," he said Monday in his veto statement.
In his view, A-2878 was well-intentioned but painted "with too broad a brush." For example, a company interviewing for a marketing job would not be able to ask about applicants’ use of social networking "so as to gauge the candidate’s technological skills and media savvy," Christie wrote.
