Punch line: Obama’s job bill would let unemployed folks sue an employer with an opening if they think they haven’t received due consideration in the hiring process.
Excerpted from AP: Unemployed seek protection against job bias
A growing number of unemployed or underemployed Americans are complaining that they are being screened out of job openings for the very reason they’re looking for work in the first place.
Because they’re unemployed.
Some companies and job agencies prefer applicants who already have jobs, or haven’t been jobless too long.
They may get help from a provision in President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, which would ban companies with 15 or more employees from refusing to consider — or offer a job to — someone who is unemployed.
The provision would give those claiming discrimination a right to sue, and violators would face fines of up to $1,000 per day, plus attorney fees and costs.
Let me get this straight.
So, when benefits run out after 99 weeks – almost 2 years – then companies must hire them.
Perhaps there’s a reason that the 9% who are unemployed aren’t in the group of 91% who are employed.
You think ?
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