Defending Laws that Prohibits Overt Unemployment Discrimination against Unemployment Applicant
Introduction
Many a time’s people who have been unemployed for quite an extended period are disadvantaged. The reason why jobless people are underprivileged is because many companies and employer hire individuals who have experience in working, those working or those who have been unemployed for a short time. Arguably, many businesses have set standards for applicants who look forward to being employees. In most cases employers have undesirable attention on people who have never worked. Also, some companies discriminate people regarding age, gender or race. For a fair hiring and the employment of many individuals, laws have been made and implemented to protect the interests of people who are unemployed from discrimination. Oregon and the District of Columbia, for instance, have been adopted to protect individuals against discrimination centered on their unemployment status.
Barring Discrimination against Unemployed Applicants
Oregon is doing its best to fight against discrimination of unemployed individuals from employers. The law forbids companies from excluding jobless people from the job advertisements. Seemingly, the law does not want businesses or corporations to issue ads that have offensive language regarding the unemployed. In cases where an employee violates the law, he or she is set to a penalty of 1000 dollars for each violation (Engelberg, 2012). Notably, if a company follows all the rules and laws of Oregon but judges the employment status, it is also taken as a violation of both the Federal law and Oregon. Additionally, the bill goes further by ensuring that at no particular point will a person not be hired because they are unemployed. The law also takes into account that agencies should not limit, classify or segregate individual or place them in conditions that would be hard for them to access information about job opportunities because of their unemployment status.
Arguably, many employers do not like hiring unemployed people or people who have not been working they term them as undesirable. Many organizations argue that it is impossible to hire someone that does not have skills or someone that stopped working a long time ago and instead hire the one who is with the skills and working. Also, the law fights against this by laying down a rule that states that employers should have good reasons for not hiring someone because of their unemployment status. Luckily for the unemployed many countries like California, Florida, New York and Ohio have considered implementing laws that are for the jobless (Deschenaux, 2012). Moreover, all the bills require employers to do research regarding what is allowed and what is not considered when planning to hire someone. Seemingly, the law does not forbid employers from asking some of the questions. Furthermore, for the employers to avoid discrimination of individuals in their advertisements, they are asked to revise the print before issuing it to the public this is to prevent violation of the law and the discrimination against the unemployed (Frasch, 2013).
In conclusion, the introduction of the law has mostly helped the unemployed regarding not getting the opportunities of having a job, and also it helps them gain experience in different fields. Moreover, the law does not entirely favor the unemployed but also considers the employers, in that they can ask some questions to the employees to ensure the qualifications of the individual.
References
Deschenaux, J. (2012). States Considering Bills Barring Bias Against Unemployed Applicants. Retrieved From https://www.shrm.org/legalissues/stateandlocalresources/pages/unemployedapplicants.aspx
Engelberg, A. (2012). New Law Makes Oregon Second State To Prohibit Discrimination In Job Ads. Talent Management and HR (TLNT). Retrieved From http://www.eremedia.com/tlnt/new-law-makes-oregon-the-2nd-state-to-prohibit-discrimination-in-job-ads/
Frasch B., K. (2013). Pushing Back Against Employment Discrimination: An Amendment to A Human-Rights Law in New York City Banning Employers From Considering Unemployment as A hiring Factor Is Just The Latest Step In A Nationwide Progression Toward Eradicating Such Discrimination. Retrieved From http://www.hreonline.com/HRE/view/story.jhtml?id=534355659
