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BREAKING: Obama proposes letting the jobless sue for discrimination
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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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To: mewzilla

Campaign contributions *down* from regular folks - time to ramp *up* contributions from trial lawyers.


21 posted on 09/28/2011 8:00:29 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: Scythian

..the great uniter


22 posted on 09/28/2011 8:02:26 AM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: edpc
Sounds like a Cloward-Piven strategy to me.

Agreed. Surprised it took 17 posts before someone pointed that out. Overwhelm the system: Cloward-Piven 101. The social experimentalist's version of a denial of service attack.

23 posted on 09/28/2011 8:03:20 AM PDT by newheart (When does policy become treason?)
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To: Scythian

Next up a push by the Obama administration to ban discrimination against those with no experience or qualifications.


24 posted on 09/28/2011 8:03:22 AM PDT by Lockbox (`)
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To: SueRae
I'm gonna start suing banks - they discriminate against people that don't have accounts with money in them.

Why, just the other day I walked into a bank because I wanted some cash and they wouldn't give me any!

25 posted on 09/28/2011 8:03:59 AM PDT by NativeSon
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To: Scythian; All

this is wealth redistribution for the cronicly unemployable.

The incompetents and the dead weights who were purged in 2008 and 2009 are now going to have unfunded mandate.

This is because employers are not hiring obama incompetents.


26 posted on 09/28/2011 8:04:36 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: tgusa
Zero is obviously making a serious effort to push us over the edge.

But woe to you, O earth and sea, for Obama has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows his time is short.

27 posted on 09/28/2011 8:05:00 AM PDT by kevao
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To: Scythian

Employers have ways around that. Just like they got around ‘age’ on applications and during interviews.

All the employer has to do it have applicants fill out applications; then never call the ones who cannot show a recent employment history.

This requirement is just another lib/leftie feel-good-ism that looks good on paper.


28 posted on 09/28/2011 8:05:28 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: rokkitapps
This proposal alone shows he has no idea knows exactly what he is doing.

Reading some of the other posts will show you why I changed your comment.

29 posted on 09/28/2011 8:06:08 AM PDT by bcsco (Take a Cain - and cure the Pain!)
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To: rokkitapps
He knows exactly what he is doing
30 posted on 09/28/2011 8:06:38 AM PDT by Outlaw Woman (Back to square freakn' one...)
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To: MindBender26
Far from Breaking. Posted here for the past week.

I posted this over one month ago:

To: the lastbestlady

It creates a new protected class:

Subtitle D – Prohibition of Discrimination in Employment on the Basis of an Individual's Status as Unemployed

34 posted on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 4:17:16 PM by Errant

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2777788/posts?page=34#34

31 posted on 09/28/2011 8:07:51 AM PDT by Errant
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To: kevao

Wow his internal numbers must be awful. He has given up all pretense of triangulating. He is all in with far leftism.


32 posted on 09/28/2011 8:07:51 AM PDT by pburgh01
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To: Scythian

Ambulence chaser helping other ambulence chasers.


33 posted on 09/28/2011 8:08:23 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: bcsco

gmta


34 posted on 09/28/2011 8:08:36 AM PDT by Outlaw Woman (Back to square freakn' one...)
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To: edpc

LOL! Did I do that? I know better. We need the post-post edit function!


35 posted on 09/28/2011 8:11:45 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: edpc
"Choking the system with litigation and forcing businesses who are surviving during difficult circumstances into hardship until it all collapses.

Sounds like a Cloward-Piven strategy to me."

We have a winner. Collapse the system through impossible demands and then rebuild their ideal swociety from the ashes and those that survive and submit. Obama channels Hugo Chavez.

36 posted on 09/28/2011 8:12:10 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: rolling_stone

Potomac Fever - a contagion that nearly every politician and appointee to Washington seems to get after a few years and the damage they do lasts decades.
37 posted on 09/28/2011 8:12:35 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy
...Employers have ways around that. Just like they got around ‘age’ on applications and during interviews...

Doesn't matter. Some applicants will still file suit and employers will have to spend time and money fighting them or settling these claims.

What little profit margins companies are working with now will become smaller as they're forced to fight these frivolous suits.

38 posted on 09/28/2011 8:13:18 AM PDT by FReepaholic (I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok.)
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To: Scythian

Many (not all) who have been unemployed for 99 weeks may lack motivation.


39 posted on 09/28/2011 8:13:33 AM PDT by umgud
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To: Scythian

I’m applying for CEO of HP. (I understand there may be an opening soon). Don’t really want the job but the wind fall from the lawsuit could be huge!!


40 posted on 09/28/2011 8:14:00 AM PDT by woodenickel
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