Posted on 09/28/2011 7:52:11 AM PDT by Scythian
Advocates for the unemployed have cheered a push by the Obama administration to ban discrimination against the jobless. But business groups and their allies are calling the effort unnecessary and counterproductive.
The job creation bill that President Obama sent to Congress earlier this month includes a provision that would allow unsuccessful job applicants to sue if they think a company of 15 more employees denied them a job because they were unemployed.
The provision would ban employment ads that explicitly declare the unemployed ineligible, with phrases like "Jobless need not apply." As The Lookout has reported, such ads appear to have proliferated in recent years, prompting an inquiry by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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This is from the onion correct?
Bfl
We are in agreement that it is a short-sighted approach. I think a company is stupid to take that approach. But as you state, I would rather leave it up to a stupid company than create more government bureaucracy and bureaucrats to enforce more government regulations and enrich legions of scum-sucking bottom feeder lawyers (apologies to the GOOD lawyers out there on FR)
I think we are basically in agreement...
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