November 17, 2010[more]
Congressman responds to reports of job ads that read: ‘no unemployed candidates need apply’
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04) sent a letter to U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Jacqueline Berrien to request an investigation into possible discrimination against the unemployed.
Congressman Johnson is responding to reports of job listings that explicitly exclude unemployed applicants. Some advertisements stated that applications “must be currently employed” to apply or stipulated that “no unemployed candidates will be considered at all.”
“Employer discrimination against unemployed job applicants is fundamentally wrong,” said Rep. Johnson, who represents parts of DeKalb, Rockdale and Gwinnett counties in eastern metropolitan Atlanta. “With unemployment at 9.6 percent and more than 15 million Americans out of work, this discrimination will only prolong the crisis.”
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Posted by: Mitchell Hirsch on Nov 21, 2010
Responding to reports that some employers have been discriminating against unemployed workers in their hiring practices, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) has called for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to open an investigation. A letter from Rep. Johnson to EEOC Chair Jacqueline Berrien urging the investigation has been signed by 58 members of Congress.
The letter also requests that the EEOC issue a statement detailing how such a practice of discriminating against unemployed workers in hiring "could be illegal" and that employers who do discriminate against the unemployed may face disparate impact claims due to the higher proportion of minority workers being unemployed.
"If this trend of employers discriminating against the unemployed continues," the members of Congress say in the letter, "it will only prolong the unemployment crisis the United States is facing."
ya know, sometimes i wonder if we couldn't solve the whole affirmative action controversy by giving the preferences to whoever's most in need...?
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