Pick your poison...
Posted on 06/12/2011 8:15:32 AM PDT by Libloather
Unemployed need not apply
Published: June 3, 2011
One of the worst things about the plague of unemployment is that the longer a person is out of work, the harder it becomes to re-enter the work force. Technology moves on; skills fade.
It always has been easier to move from one job to another than to move to a job from unemployment. But the problem has been compounded by the depth of the Great Recession, a glut of workers, at every conceivable skill level, and a paucity of jobs. Of about 4.4 million unemployed Americans, about 1.75 million have been out of work for more than a year.
As reported in Time magazine, a hearing by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission earlier this year revealed that many employers have advertised jobs listing current employment as a condition for even applying.
Employers should be free to hire according to their own criteria, but not to discriminate based on unemployment, especially given near-cataclysmic economic events over the last three years.
Rep. Hank Johnson, a Georgia Democrat, has introduced the Fair Employment Act of 2011. It would amend the Civil Rights Act to stop employers from refusing to hire people on the basis of unemployment alone.
That's a fair step toward giving a break to people who need one the most.
LOL -- good idea.
Oderint dum telephonent.
I applied to one company 46 times for jobs that I am fully qualified for. My last resume to them, I reduced my experience from 20 years to 9 years. A week later I got a call.
I cannot prove it, but a 50 year old white man without a college degree but over 20 years of industry experience is not welcome in the workforce as a full time employee.
Just a question. Are these unemployed taking classes to keep their skills up to date?
Candidate 'A' got his BSME in 1970, his PE License in 1972 and an ME in 1975 and worked for one engineering firm until 2000. That's when they went out of business and 'A' hasen't worked since - for whatever reason. (yes, and OLD to boot)So. If 'A' is hired a lot of time by 'someone' will be needed to train the 'old timer' how to operate all these new gizmos and apps that have come out in the past eleven years. So 'A' isn't earning his pay and he's causing another employee lost time for training - and time is money. The company is now losing money from hiring the very experienced person.Candidate 'B' only has a BSME that he got in 1998, didn't try for his PE License, is still employed, but wants this new job.
Now candidate 'A' sure has a lot more 'knowledge', as the laws of Physics hasn't changed, but he hasn't worked in Eleven Years. But 'B', the young whippersnapper has steadily worked and is up to date with Current Technology with the new gizmos as to HOW TO APPLY those laws of Physics.
But if 'B' is hired it's a given that he's already qualified so a PE license isn't needed, nor is a Masters Degree. And 'B' already knows how to use all the gizmos and apps as he's employed. This is now a no brainer. In hiring 'B' its a plus for the company all around. (NOTE: Salary isn't an issue, it'd be same for anyone hired)
This may seem 'unfair' but a businesses business isn't about fairness, it's about profit. And when the government gets involved with new 'fairness laws' for businesses, we're done for. America has become a socialist Communist state. Everyone would be in one big union, with everyone guaranteed a job and all making the same salary.
Whether they're worth it, or not.
Rep. Hank Johnson, a Georgia Democrat, has introduced the Fair Employment Act of 2011. It would amend the Civil Rights Act to stop employers from refusing to hire people on the basis of unemployment alone.
Hank Johnson on the danger of the Island of Guam tipping over:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg
That actually can make it harder to go back up to the previous level, too. Our most recent job is typically weighted much more heavily than previous jobs.
If the cage pays enough...
Maybe 5 years ago, but I think it’s probably more acceptable now to take a step back. Especially if that stepping back wasn’t wasted, in terms that you did some courses.
This is an excuse to get illegals, I suppose... along with Libertarians making drug growing legal but not food stuff, medicine and business.
Good. Stupid practices like that are encouraging to those of us choking off revenues from the elite with self-sufficiency, frugality, anti-consumerism and development of technical skills. We’re going to get that new leadership.
It's a buyer's market, and the best deal is to get someone who's already employed.
Keep in mind that this would also include a McJob, which would tell me that the prospect will work to support himself instead of taking a handout.
Currently, labor is a buyers market. Employers can afford to demand and hold out for the best.
people who have a job looking for a better job have a chance IF there under age 55....be 55 or over, no one will take you....no matter the qualifications,resumes,references....
Tell me about it. I have been working, but searching, and requirements are so strict, about the only job I am qualified for is the one I already have.
I have skills and an education, been out of work one year. laid off because the local Boy Scouts of American could not meet payroll needs. The thing that gets me is the employees who voted for obama are still employed and he is the cause of all this.
Pick your poison...
it also indicates you have not sued your employer, you are not deadweight already laid off, and you are not an office troublemaker.
When he tells us Bush drove in the ditch he forgets to mention Franks and Dodd were the navigators and after we went into a ditch they took the tires off and drained the gas tank
True, and I don't advocate a government-intervention type action. I will however, do my best to express my disgust at it. I know highly talented people who would do a great job if given the chance.
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