This article talks about President Obama's new job bill which would prohibit employers from discriminating against job applicants just because they are unemployed.Unsuccessful job applicants could sue the employer if they discriminates on the basis of a person's status of unemployed.
This proposal seems to be helpful decreasing the high employment rate now, while there still are some critiques towords this proposal. People says that the new action will establish the unemployed as a new "protected class", which would make unemployed people feel more safe to be unemployed. Thus in reality it might enhance the unemployment rate.
To the employer, this proposal would give employers some leeway. In deciding whether to hire a person who is unemployed, they could consider the person’s work history and examine why the person is unemployed if that was relevant to ability to perform a job.
This new bill should be quite beneficial to the economy in the over time, as the difficulty in long term unemployed finding jobs will decrease. No doubt this would help to reduce the present unemployment levels.
ReplyDeleteI think it is a good thing that this issue is addressed. There are several out there who are discriminated upon for not being employed yet there is a vast number of reasons why a person could be unemployed. They should not be judged for a position based on their unemployment status.
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