“I have no problem with this sort of outreach affirmative action that encourages minorities to apply, so long as it’s not a front for a quota system at the back end.”
This is not what is happening though. What is happening(according to other posters familiar with these laws) is that companies and states are fined by the federal government if they do not have enough black and female applications filled out for the job opening.
That doesn’t strike you as nanny state insanity? How can a company be expected to determine who fills out an application? They can’t go out in the streets and drag folks in...lol. It is not an ‘outreach program’...it is a federal law with fines involved. When are we going to get back to personal responsibility in this country?
Isn’t it the responsibility of the job seeker to SEEK out gainful employment and to be qualified for said job?
Like I said, I have a problem if there is a quota system at the back end. And while it would be nice if job seekers went out to find jobs on their own, the reality is that some minorities, women, and people in poverty are self-defeating and if they understood how to succeed, they’d be succeeding. I don’t think giving them a nudge or even a hand is necessarily a bad thing so long as it results in hiring qualified people and not at the expense of other as or more qualified people simply on the basis of race or sex.