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They Only Want People Who Don't Need A Job
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This keeps coming up: Employers are discriminating against the unemployed in hiring. This makes no sense, considering that someone who hasn't been working would seem to me to be MORE motivated to get back to work and might even take less money just for the chance to get a paycheck, but some employers think that unemployed means lazy. The employers argue (off the record, of course) that unemployment may mean outdated skills, or someone who'll leave the moment a better job comes along. Are those fair assumptions? But banning that discrimination is tricky, too: Interfering in an employer's ability to consider what someone's been doing before now might lead the employer to just not hire anyone. (New York Times)
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