Unemployed need not apply

AND NO GODDAMN IRISH!

 

I know. I understand that. I just want to make sure that for X amount of resources we're spending on this policy, we are reaping X amount of reward. And I want to make sure that we have some crystallized idea of what the reward is. Because it's not job creation. In fact, if companies have to expend resources on compliance, we might lose jobs instead.

 

The FOFI (first out, first in) Act ... I like it!

Seriously, it's shitty business. Hiring firms do themselves no favors with this approach. But if you force firms to devote resources to ensure compliance with additional anti-discrimination regulation, you inevitably shift all employers' demand curve leftward (i.e., you reduce their demand for employees).

What other tools might be available? What about newspapers refusing to accept such ads? What about newspapers writing stories about firms -- and naming names -- who engage in such practices? I, for one, would seriously consider taking my business away from companies that engage in such practices.

 

Again: Nuts.

 

Interesting that we can export this kind of "ethical business" thinking to Mexicali or Lima -

http://www.transfairusa.org/

- but can never really figure out how to implement it in North Carolina or Georgia.

 

Well, everyone knows that Mexican workers are living high on the hog.

 

The compassion and civic awareness we seem willing to expend on a cup of coffee at Starbuck's eludes us when it comes to saving our own necks.

 

But how do we get there?

We all want the same thing. Full employment.

How do we get there? How do we manipulate the market to incentivize hiring that adds value to the economy?

How?

 

Then at least the unemployed people can send their resumes in. And maybe, if the company has enough bad hires from getting employed people coming on, the company will consider the unemployed people.

That, plus in many states, in order to receive unemployment, the workers have to prove that they're searching for work. They'll be able to at least say that they sent their resumes into the company. If a company has that policy, then they wouldn't be able to send it in.

 

So the goal is to make sure the right people get hired then?

 

Sure.

And the right people may be an already-employed person. Or an unemployed person.

 

And you think that the resources expended will be worth the reward? That a policy can be tailored to do that?

And you are willing to sacrifice some overall jobs in the economy because of the resources devoted to compliance?