In a German job interview, questions about a pregnancy are not allowed. Questions about membership in a party or a union are not allowed either. Questions about a criminal record are allowed only in exceptional cases and within narrow limits. If an employer asks an inadmissible question anyway, the applicant may answer it untruthfully. The legal news site LTO calls this eine Lizenz zum Lügen, a license to lie. It rests on decisions of the European Court of Justice and the Federal Labor Court.