; (2) fail or refuse to consider for employment, or fail or refuse to hire, an individual as an employee because of the individual’s status as unemployed; or (3) direct or request that an employment agency take an individual’s status as unemployed into account to disqualify an applicant for consideration, screening, or referral for employment as an employee. (b) Employment agencies It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employment agency to— (1) publish, in print or on the Internet or in any other medium, an advertisement or announcement for any vacancy in a job, as an employee, that includes— (A) any provision stating or indicating that an individual’s status as unemployed disqualifies the individual for any employment opportunity; or (B) any provision stating or indicating that the employment agency or an employer will not consider or hire an individual for any employment opportunity based on that individual’s status as unemployed; (2) screen, fail or refuse to consider, or fail or refuse to refer an individual for employment as an employee because of the individual’s status as unemployed; or (3) limit, segregate, or classify any individual in any manner that would limit or tend to limit the individual’s access to information about jobs, or consideration, screening, or referral for jobs, as employees, solely because of an individual’s status as unemployed. (c) Interference with rights, proceedings or inquiries It shall be unlawful for any employer or employment agency to— (1) interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of or the attempt to exercise, any right provided under this subtitle; or (2) fail or refuse to hire, to discharge, or in any other manner to discriminate against any individual, as an employee, because such individual— (A) opposed any practice made unlawful by this subtitle; (B) has asserted any right, filed any charge, or has instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding, under or related to this subtitle