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EU potential employer asking for Police Clearance Certificate because of my nationality
<p>I'm from Portugal and living in Poland now. I have passed a recruiting process for a Danish company here in Poland.</p>
<p>The company stated that as I'm not Danish, nor Polish, I should go through an additional verification process that requires more documents (like a Police Clearance Certificate or PCC) in order to sign the contract.</p>
<p>I'm asking if this goes against EU law, article 21:</p>
<p><a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=OJ:C:2007:303:TOC" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=OJ:C:2007:303:TOC</a></p>
<p><a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:C:2007:303:FULL&amp;from=EN" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:C:2007:303:FULL&amp;from=EN</a></p>
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<p>Non-discrimination</p>
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<li><p>Any discrimination based on any ground such as sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation shall be prohibited.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Within the scope of application of the Treaties and without prejudice to any of their specific provisions, any discrimination on grounds of nationality shall be prohibited.</p>
</li>
</ol>
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<p>Is it legal?</p>
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<p>The request for additional documents seems lawful. The fact that an employer's screening process is not streamlined for all nationalities does not imply that candidates who are not citizens of Denmark or Poland are subjected to unlawful discrimination.</p>
<p>Quite the contrary, the request in and of itself reflects that the company is not ruling you out merely on grounds of your nationality. There <em>might</em> be a finding of discrimination if the company incurred in a pattern of vexatious requirements, but that is not palpable in your description.</p>
