{"id":14062,"date":"2011-02-18T11:13:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T17:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/?p=14062"},"modified":"2011-02-18T07:14:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T13:14:49","slug":"a-new-form-of-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2011\/02\/18\/a-new-form-of-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Form of Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

From Yahoo by Zachary Roth<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Anyone facing this? hearing of this? any companies want to speak up?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2008, Michelle, a 53-year-old Illinois resident with 19 years experience in information technology, became another casualty of the Great Recession. More than a year later, after a long and fruitless job search, she finally heard from a headhunter who thought she sounded like a great fit for a post he was looking to fill.<\/p>\n

But when Michelle told him how long she had been out of work, the headhunter turned apologetic: His client, he said, wouldn\u2019t accept people who had been unemployed for more than six months. Michelle would go on to stay jobless for so long that she ultimately exhausted all her unemployment benefits, and, for the first time in her life, was forced to apply for food stamps and welfare.<\/p>\n

Michelle\u2019s tale was recounted at a recent\u00a0Equal\u00a0Employment\u00a0Opportunity\u00a0Commission<\/span><\/a> (EEOC) meeting devoted to the issue of hiring discrimination against the unemployed. As the commission found, Michelle\u2019s experience is far from unique. No one officially tracks how many job openings explicitly bar the unemployed, but\u00a0several<\/a> news<\/a> reports<\/a> since last summer have uncovered numerous online job postings that require candidates be employed during the application process. One such listing was posted by the cellphone giant Sony Ericsson\u2013a move the company later called a \u201cmistake.\u201d<\/p>\n

Job-placement professionals say that over the last year, more and more employers have made it clear they won\u2019t consider job candidates who aren\u2019t working. \u201cA lot of our recruiters have had clients who have come across this,\u201d Matt Deutsch of TopEchelon.com, which brings recruiters together to collaborate in finding jobs for candidates, told The Lookout, calling the practice \u201cunfortunate.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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