Posted on 07/13/2011 7:10:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Unemployed workers continue to be excluded from job openings in online postings and a report released yesterday by the National Employment Law Project hopes to create federal legislature to stop it.
“Unemployed job seekers continue to be excluded from work opportunities, and this disturbing and unfair practice appears to be more pervasive than previously thought,” said Christine Owens, executive director of the National Employment Law Project.
“This practice is a perverse catch-22 that requires workers to have jobs in order to get jobs, and it means highly qualified, experienced workers who want and need work can’t get past the starting gate in the application process simply because they lost their jobs through no fault of their own,” Owens continued. “As a business practice, this makes no sense. It is debilitating to workers—particularly the long-term unemployed—and it hampers economic recovery.”
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RE: Yup, one of my cousins has been out of work for two years. He’s 59.
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At age 59, he still has 3 years to wait before he is eligible to receive the MINIMUM social security he’s paid into throughout his working life.
However, if he has a 401K, he can wait another 6 months before he can use that money without penalty.
However, this, is going to be a demographic problem if company attitudes are not reversed.
They are passing laws to increase the age by which people can receive social security (meaning, they want people to work longer) and yet, companies are considering those who are in their 50’s who are willing to work, too old to be productive.
You will have a huge group of people who will be hard pressed to find work for over a decade until they can retire.
Companies get so many applications, they must screen them, or hire a staff of HR. They loose a lot of wheat in the chaff, but they have so many applicants. It’s the most efficient way to find new employees.
Applicants can screen too. I only apply at companies if I know someone on the inside that can get me an interview. I don’t hear the other companies lobbying for laws to protect them.
Same here.
A wedding ring is a chick-magnet. It’s almost safer NOT to wear it.
And women today are increasingly becoming self-centered and frankly, jerks and a-holes who can’t deliver the goods they expect men to deliver. I wouldn’t date a woman who used that tactic to get men. It means she’s go-with-the-flow and can’t judge people, and she’ll be out the door when the next fatter wallet blows by.
The reason I lost my job was because I would not do something illegal for my employer, so they cut my position.
So yes, I have been screwed because I did the right things and I am too old. Who would have thought this would happen in America, to the extent it is happening?
Yep, we were getting it from both angles. We needed a job to get a job and because we couldn’t get a job we were free loaders.
Gives you the warm fuzzies.
RedState, if I may ask, what do you do and what state are you in? Maybe I can pass your resume along to my recruiters. I been through this already and I got back in by expanding my network.
It is this age group who are so screwed nowadays.
They’re too young to retire, but too old to be hired.
Yep, I found that out at 50 when the company I worked for closed.
But, try it again at 63 when the company closes. Lots of Luck.
For women, its about power and self-hatred.
First, they think you’re stupid. They think that they have some magic muffin that will get you to abandon your current wife, your kids, and your financial security.
They try and seduce you into blowing all that up just to be with her.
Some idiots fall for it. Everyone knows what happens next. It starts out under the table until this chick ‘wants all of you’ and then you get a divorce.
What’s more affirming to the female ego than, “I’m so hot I broke up a man’s family. I ruined that guy’s life, and I could do it again.
What about the wife? Well, she should have taken steps. . .”
It was supposed to be a better world with women in charge.
When men were in charge, there were races to see who could be better at stuff. Now there are races to see how quickly we can break them down.
Now boys are in charge, and men who think they’re women, etc.
Ah, well it all ends up the same for the women anyway. Eventually they’re looks decline as their expectations and ego increase, and they end up clinging to the last sucker they could con. This describes nearly my entire family and not a few of my friends from college, and a significant portion of the males on my wife’s side.
They ride that poor bastard down until he ends up dying first, and then the family is left with the crone that remains.
Lost is the notion that life is hard, and the two of you can go ungracefully into that uncertainty, hand in hand. My grandparents did that, falling apart together and using what they had left to care for each other until they both were gone. I’ve seen my in-laws friends do that as well.
One of my in-law’s good friends had a stroke, which put him permanently into a full-care facility. He called my father in law in to tell him that he planned to starve himself out to save his wife from the financial and emotional burden. He asked him to take care of the financial and business affairs and the funeral arrangements and then said his goodbyes over the protestations of my FIL.
With no additional painkillers, he succeeded in less than a week and died. He did it for his wife. He had the calculations laid out for my FIL, who’s a math professor, and convinced him that every day he was here was a day on earth less for his wife.
The guy was amazing. Had nothing left, but used what was left to take care of his wife.
As for the single v married attraction phenomena, it cuts both ways. I have more than a couple of single friends who invested in very nice wedding bands. They attract women with them, sleep with them, and then leave them the next day.
One of my friends ran into one such bedmate on a business trip in a city 500 miles away from where he lives.
“Good to see you again!”
“You too.”
“What’s up? It was ‘radio silence’ after that night. . .”
“Isn’t that the way you wanted it?”
“Afriad your wife would find out (teasingly)”
“I’ve never been married.”
“Never married?”
“Nevery married.”
“What’s with the ring?”
“I use it to get women like you to sleep with me.”
Which he proceeded to do again that very evening. I’m glad I don’t understand women.
I was forced to take a 20% pay cut this week in order to keep my job.
not complain
let boss speak for department
will be happy to just have a job
will not unionize
Has anyone seen the movie Company Men? Good movie about the current job market. Pretty much tells it like it is!
under Obama, age discrimination is now legal because it DOES discriminate against an non protected skin color and gender.
IOW when in doubt fire the white guy.
I saw the movie.
Very depressing to see one of the laid off Senior Managers exhaust all his contacts and to be finally told by one of his former colleagues who had hiring authority — “You’re 60 and this job is going to be exhausting even for someone half you age. Just retire.”
The man committed suicide.
Of course, in the end, almost everyone took a pay cut in order to work for a former company executive they knew who had to start all over again.
Which is why many big companies want Obamacare.
you have not sued your employer.
you are a team player.
you are not dead weight to you company.
Or, you are:
--A minority
--homosexual
--disabled
--A white male who has kept his mouth shut and emails clean so none of the above can accuse him of "creating a hostile environment"
The biggest reason employers don't want to even interview unemployed people is that most of them are straight white males. They can't say "no straight white males need apply" so they say "no unemployed." I am female and unemployed, and I recently for an interview for a job where the ad said "no unemployed candidates please."
Unless the reason the person was LOOKING for a NEW JOB in the first place, was because the company he was working for was going to ELIMINATE his job.
I had them tell me I was OVERQUALIFIED , years ago when I applied for a job.
I told them to hire me anyway, and I would act just as ignorant as everyone else.
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