Equal-opportunity employer
Filed a job application on Thomson Financials web site.

Skipped Race/Ethnic Identification drop-down 'cause I believe it to be irrelevant for the purpose of job search.

Next thing I receive from them is this:

Our records indicate that you have not yet responded to our EEO/Affirmative Action query for [position name]. To help us comply with federal and state Equal Employment Opportunity record keeping, reporting, analysis purposes and other legal requirements, we invite you to click here and provide this information.

If you have already provided this information to us for other applications and do not wish to update/modify it, please disregard this request.

Important - Applicants Please Read
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical, or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.
Again, to help us comply with federal and state Equal Employment Opportunity record keeping, reporting, analysis purposes and other legal requirements, we request that you complete this data information questionnaire.

Please Note - Completion of this form is voluntary
Refusal to complete this information will not subject any applicant to adverse treatment. The information that you provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file, separate from all other records. This information will not be used for employment purposes or in connection with your application.

Thank you for your interest in ** UNRESOLVED **.


Best regards,
Human Resource Department
** UNRESOLVED ** HR

What the heck UNRESOLVED is supposed to mean in the context of a job application? Looked kind of threatening to me. So I picked whatever is appropriate from drop-down list - and they happily stated that now the form is complete. I suspect what they do is ILLEGAL.