Disposable People: The Unemployed Need Not Apply

[paft.livejournal.com]

From Clickorlando.com 6/1/10:
Job hunters are facing a new hurdle: businesses asking recruitment companies to keep unemployed people out of their job pools.

Video here.

Yes, you read that right. Some businesses are now placing job ads that exclude all those icky unemployed people. A trend I first mentioned back in July of last year is continuing and, according to this story, growing.

So, many of the unemployed face, not only the cutting off of their unemployment benefits, not only potential employers holding bad credit ratings, (often a byproduct of not having a job) against them, they now are increasingly being barred by potential employers from applying for job openings -- because they are unemployed.

Apparently in today’s society, more and more, once you’re out, you’re out.

Think of the weapon this hands employers. The saying, so beloved of free market types, “If you don’t like the job, quit and find another one,” is becoming not just a platitude, but a mocking sneer. Quitting is no longer an option, being fired, or laid off, no longer a relatively minor blip in someone’s working life.

If this trend continues, unemployment itself could become a catastrophe that knocks someone permanently out of full time work.

Comments

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

It's not a situation that's wide. I wouldn't worry about it.

[light-over-me.livejournal.com]

I suppose it will, if unemployment continues to rise, while jobs continue to shrink. So the best thing we can do, in my opinion, is stimulate that job growth and encourage companies to invest and expand.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

It'd be hard to trend any more than it already has.

[spaz-own-joo.livejournal.com]

Didn't you just say (http://community.livejournal.com/talk_politics/551123.html?thread=39718099#t39718099) it hadn't?

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

No. It's not a trend (noun), and it's unlikely to trend (verb) differently.