Job listings say the unemployed need not apply

Job listings say the unemployed need not apply

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Hundreds of job opening listings posted on Monster.com and other jobs sites explicitly state that people who are unemployed would be less attractive applicants, with some telling the long-term unemployed to not even bother with applying.

Reader Susan W. said she was being treated "as if it were my fault I was unemployed, regardless of the fact that I had put out hundreds of resumes and applications."

Legal experts told the Times that explicitly barring unemployed people from applying does not qualify under the statutory definition of discrimination, since unemployment is not a federally protected status like age or race. But the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently set out to establish whether employers were discriminating against certain protected groups because they are overrepresented in the ranks of the unemployed, such as African-American and older workers. (We covered that meeting here.) New Jersey recently passed a law barring employment ads that seek to rule out applications from those who are unemployed.

Even if the practice of weeding out unemployed applicants doesn't fit the legal definition of discrimination, it sure feels unfair for the more than 6.3 million Americans who have been out of work for more than six months to be told they are automatically disqualified for the few openings that are out there. "I feel like I am being shunned by our entire society," Kelly Wiedemer, an unemployed information technology specialist, told the Times.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/job-listings-unemployed-not-apply-133143362.html

When DH was scanning local Atlanta jobs, he spotted lots of these. I'll bet they still happen, too.

and the President could urge them to do so.

But all I hear from the fuckers on this issue is crickets chirpping.

I encourage EVERYONE to lie about this

If you get caught, point out the ad and say 'what the fuck did you expect me to do?'

Maybe after wasting money on this, companies will decide it's not worth it

Like I posted in a similar thread, those who are gainfully employed and are "eagerly" looking to get out of the company that they work for, and too easily match the sometimes unreasonable, lofty and minutely described job qualifications in finely-tuned detail, at what may apppear to be at slightly higher salary/wage and/or may appear to offer better benefits/working hours, they may very well be applying to the very same company that they are already working for, esp. if it is local and the company/business does not directly identify itself by name in the advertisement.