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Originally Posted by ColdNoMore
Having performed literally hundreds and hundreds of in-person interviews in my previous life...the question you were asked was against the law. 
There's a whole, long list, of questions that can't be legally asked...and that is but one of them.
It IS legal to ask if there's any reason that you might be unable to work weekends, odd shifts or during certain days of the week, but you do NOT have to explain what those reasons are...even if you were to answer 'yes.'
Not to say that the potential employer won't illegally discriminate due to your answers/non-answers, as that sadly still happens all of the time...but they have no right to ask certain questions in the first place.
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Yeah that's why it threw me for a loop. I knew if I pointed out to him that it was against the law for him to ask the question, I wouldn't get the job. If I answered it "yes I'll need time off on occasion to take care of the grandkids" I wouldn't get the job. If I told him I didn't have grandkids, and it was a guy who felt it was a woman's duty to give birth to fertile, child-bearable progenies, I wouldn't get the job. If he was fishing to find out how old I was and I said "not yet" I might not get the job. No matter how I answered the question, I was risking being out of a job. And the question was illegal to ask, as you said.
That was the moment I decided I didn't want to work there. Who would want to work for someone who is either a) ignorant of the laws preventing him from asking questions like that or b) knowledgeable but willing to break the laws to get the "right" employee?