Firms throw up new hurdle: Unemployed need not apply

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Source: McClatchy

By Tony Pugh | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — As if finding work weren't hard enough already, a federal agency warns that some employers are excluding jobless workers from consideration for openings.

The practice has surfaced in electronic and print postings with language such as "unemployed applicants will not be considered" or "must be currently employed." Some ads use time thresholds to exclude applicants who've been unemployed longer than six months or a year.

Evidence of the practice has been mostly anecdotal, and information about how widespread it may be is sketchy.

But with unemployment at 9 percent and millions of people struggling to find jobs, the practice has caught the attention of regulators, lawmakers and advocates for the unemployed




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[Kali]

1. assholes

sickening behavior

[MadHound]

2. The unemployed are now well on their way to becoming a permanent underclass,

And with cuts in social welfare programs, they are going to be left to fend, and die, for themselves.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. How dare they?

I am sickened at this news.

Talk about stomping on someone when they're already so far down.

Goddamn.

:nuke:

[sarcasmo]

4. Worst industrialized nation on the Planet.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

5. Get rid of "at will" employment..............

IMHO, that would be a great place to start. Every employer I've ever had asked me to make a commitment to their business, now its time for them to make a commitment to me, the worker.

[Vidar]

6. Another practice that should be highly illegal, but apparently isn't.