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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Campaign contributions *down* from regular folks - time to ramp *up* contributions from trial lawyers.
..the great uniter
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.
Next up a push by the Obama administration to ban discrimination against those with no experience or qualifications.
Why, just the other day I walked into a bank because I wanted some cash and they wouldn't give me any!
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.
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.
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.
Reading some of the other posts will show you why I changed your comment.
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
Wow his internal numbers must be awful. He has given up all pretense of triangulating. He is all in with far leftism.
Ambulence chaser helping other ambulence chasers.
gmta
LOL! Did I do that? I know better. We need the post-post edit function!
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.
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.
Many (not all) who have been unemployed for 99 weeks may lack motivation.
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!!
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