Glasgow City Council refused to give former MSP Tommy Sheridan a job because of the "unacceptable level of risk" his perjury conviction posed, a court has heard.
The former politician had applied to become a criminal justice social worker with Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership.
However he was told in a letter that future applications for jobs with the organisation would not progress due to him serving three years in jail for perjury.
In 2011 a jury at the High Court in Glasgow concluded the former MSP lied under oath during his successful defamation action against the News of the World newspaper.