Posted on 09/26/2011 11:29:43 AM PDT by reaganaut1
President Obama has not been particularly successful in fostering the creation of jobs. But he thinks he has found a way to pry open doors in the workplace for many of the unemployed, especially those who have been out of work for a long time.
Mr. Obama’s jobs bill would prohibit employers from discriminating against job applicants because they are unemployed.
Under the proposal, it would be “an unlawful employment practice” if a business with 15 or more employees refused to hire a person “because of the individual’s status as unemployed.”
Unsuccessful job applicants could sue and recover damages for violations, just like when an employer discriminates on the basis of a person’s race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
White House officials see discrimination against the unemployed as a serious problem. In a radio interview last month, Mr. Obama said such discrimination made “absolutely no sense,” especially at a time when many people, through no fault of their own, had been laid off.
Mr. Obama’s proposal would also prohibit employment agencies and Web sites from carrying advertisements for job openings that exclude people who are unemployed. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has received reports of such advertisements but does not have data to show how common they are.
Republicans and some employers criticized the White House proposal. They said that discrimination was not common and that the proposed remedy could expose employers to a barrage of lawsuits.
“We do not see a need for it,” said Michael J. Eastman, executive director of labor law policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Already, Mr. Eastman said, the Civil Rights Act outlaws employment practices that have “a disparate impact on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin,”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Hahah spot on. I wouldn’t and I don’t think my company would either, especially given our parent company’s CEO’s free-market, conservative viewpoints on economic policy.
But you miss the point; That is exactly WHAT OBAMA WANTS!
He never wants them to work again, really, and he wants there to be more of those people.
The more permanently unemployed, the more haggard masses to have as his street army, and the more he can blame “the broken capitalism system” or greedy companies not hiring good people, as the problem.
Idiot people (most of urban American) will agree and miss the total obviousness that HE LITERALLY CREATED THE PROBLEM. They will riot or protest to demand action. So many formerly normal people will join in, just because of the self shame of being poor (and not having that experience before in their life) and the human instinct to blame others for that predicament.
This is all by design suckas-— if you still think that is a fringe opinion, then you aren’t grounded in reality or are incapable of seeing things right in front of your face (Need glasses!). Which makes me wonder how many people can’t “see” the sky is blue.
Funny, or not so funny (!!), I was thinking the same thing. This regime has turned into a bad parody of Atlas Shrugged.
You win “wisdom of the day”, my friend.
Cheers!
I propose to add Obama to the unprotected class of the unemployed.
That would require fewer bureaucrats, can’t have that. lol
hell why not just make the law to discriminate them and have done with it , instead of this protective crap"
That will come after the next Presidential election, if Obama wins. White males and Jews will be on the menu.
No way. The government covering the difference between a hard high paying job and a meaningless low wage job is the most retarded ever. The left will then apply it to everyone and there will be a mad rush for the fast food jobs.
Obama issued an executive order requiring the feds to give blacks preference. This man is a racist, a divider and uses the class envy card, the race card and greenie card to destroy this country. No way the house will go along with such an absurd request. It is against the constitution but that never stops Obama
Obama issued an executive order requiring the feds to give blacks preference. This man is a racist, a divider and uses the class envy card, the race card and greenie card to destroy this country. No way the house will go along with such an absurd request. It is against the constitution but that never stops Obama
Here’s a list of 500 Fortune 500 Companies:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2011/full_list/
I’m going to spend the rest of the day filing lawsuits because I wasn’t hired by each of them, even though I’ve never applied at any of them...
We. Are. So. Screwed.
Seriously.
To which, this T-shirt applies:
“You voted for Barack Obama to prove you weren’t racist.
Now vote for Herman Cain to prove you’re not stupid.”
http://www.zazzle.com/you_voted_obama_now_vote_cain_2012_tshirt-235328699019285417
This idiot gets sicker every day.
On Hannity just now I heard a black woman say West and Cain are oreos.
IF THAT’S not racist, I don’t know what is.
Next he will be telling the unemployed to storm the businesses and demand a job, sit in and protest those stores, businesses, etc that refuse to hire you..
Can’t you hear it now.... “If you feel you have a skill set to accomplish a job in some sector and than I say to to that factory, that business, that store and demand that job, take that job, and do that job... It shouldn’t matter if that evil rich business owner wants to hire you or not, you have the right to that job and as long as everyone does this, then that action will get the attention of those evil rich and the Congress will be forced to act....
Maybe some people need an incentive to not climb out on a limb that they can’t survive having cut off.
When I had no car payments, cheap mortgage, and otherwise few/no expenses, ‘twas “funemployment” indeed. Considered myself a good example of why the system was broken.
Own the house. Own the car. Eat cheap (see tagline).
We’re wallowing in luxury, and have gone to great lengths to screw it up such that a short interruption risks losing everything.
Political correctness was designed to silence people from speaking out against the left wing special interest groups and their agendas.
The right wing groups are fair game. Any type of hate speech is acceptable.
(Proof: name one - just one - right wing group protected by the rules of political correctness. You can't, because there isn't any.)
This RAT bastard SOB 0dumb0 is doing everything he can to destroy Amerika, all with the aidiing & abetting by the socialist demoRAT party and the marxist partisan media & unions. 0dumbo the commie pig is doing everything he can to destroy Amerika even before the Nov 2012 election. Get this RAT bastard commie pig out of office NOW!
You may be correct. However I do know that a lot of employers right now view that as a negative.
Hitting the Federal EEOC lottery is being a gay handicapped black unemployed woman whose employment application has just been rejected by a white male human resources manager for a big oil company. That is one ambulance I would chase if I were a lawyer.
Don’t forget it was proposed to make “ugly” a protected class also, so add good looking to your list.
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