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Originally Posted by DrPhil
Obama employment bill would prohibit companies from turning down unemployed applicants**
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44836466...iness-careers/
**But we know that it really only prevents companies from overtly discriminating on this basis.
**Should the government be intervening in this regard, though? There are pros and cons to everything and I see some cons to an employment bill that prohibits companies from (admittedly) turning down unemployed applicants. There are occupations and careers where being unemployed for a number of years means that you need to be retrained, re-educated, etc. ( Does the reason behind the unemployment matter? Are they going to say that all reasons for being unemployed are equal? For example, for generations, stay-at-home mothers who went back into the labor force have been denied employment because they were unemployed, lacked job history, lacked experience, etc. Is that also going to be covered with this bill? Or will gender and other forms of discrimination be kept under the rug in preference of "unemployed discrimination"?)
What say you, GCers?
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