Obama Jobs Plan: New Opportunities To Sue Companies
If Congress passes the Stimulus II, er, Jobs Bill "right now!" with "no changes!" we might be in for some surprises.
For instance, companies could be sued for not hiring the unemployed.
Rep. Louie Gohmert wonders if anyone writing the bill thought of the consequences:
"So if you're unemployed, and you go to apply for a job and you're not hired for that job, see a lawyer," Gohmert said on the House floor. "You might be able to file a claim because you got discriminated against because you're unemployed."
He said this provision would only discourage companies from interviewing unemployed candidates, and would "help trial lawyers who are not having enough work," since there are about 14 million unemployed Americans.
"That's 14 million potential new clients that could go hire a lawyer and file a claim because they didn't get hired even though they were unemployed," he said.
Well that should help the economy.
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Feb '11
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Wait, we need to 'help' trial lawyers?
Jun '10
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This is just for the transition period, until we all work directly for the government.
Jul '10
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Back when Pelosi was speaker this provision would have been buried in an 800-page bill and passed an hour after it was introduced.
May '10
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Has a congress-critter submitted the bill? If not, it does not exist.
May '10
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This will not help the unemployed, it will not help the businessman, it is not good for the economy so what can be the logical reason for it? Full employment for trial lawyers. We MUST wrest control from the lawyers! Please consider voting against sending lawyers to congress unless the opponent is obviously unqualified. Personally, I'd rather send the average truck driver than the average lawyer, largely due to shenanigans like this one.
May '11
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Dave Carter for Senator!!!!
Aug '11
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This is exactly why I avoid hiring if at all possible. There is now so much red tape in the system at both the state and federal levels that it makes hiring a new employee more of a liability than an asset. Hiring "some extra help" now means putting yourself under the scrutiny of very powerful government entities whose job it is to regulate and punish you.
Apr '11
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From the article: "President Obama's American Jobs Act, which he presented to Congress on Monday, would make it illegal for employers to run advertisements saying that they will not consider unemployed workers . . . "
What company has ever run an ad saying they would not hire somebody who is unemployed? Are there really a lot of companies that only want to hire people who already have jobs? That's like running a personal ad saying "Man looking for a wife. No single women need apply."
Jun '10
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The Federal government does not want you to hire employees. That much is clear. If you hire employees, you are punished. You pay taxes on top of their wages. You are forced to buy certain types of insurance (worker's compensation and unemployment). You are subjected to lawsuits for discrimination if the employee does not work out. This is balanced, of course, by the government rewarding people for not working.
And they wonder why we have high unemployment.
Jun '10
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Making the unemployed a protected class for civil rights discrimination purposes is a government solution in search of a problem.
It is also an attempt to nudge (and terrorize) employers away from hiring someone -- or even promoting from within -- for a better position if the person is currently working. Do that, and an unemployed, unhired applicant gets to take the employer to a kangaroo court of government overseers so the employer can defend a rational business decision in hiring or promotion, all at a significant cost in attorneys fees for the defense. And guess what? The government does the prosecution of the employer for the complainant. The unemployed complainant does not even have to hire a lawyer until it is time to go after "damages."
What is next? Requiring government permission before you can change employers?
Dec '10
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Companies absolutely advertise that they will not consider applicants that are not currently employed; I see it all the time.
Meanwhile PJS is kinda right that that Bill doesn't exist, as no Democrat has filed it in the House. Except, it does now exist! Rep. Gohmert has written his own, 2 page Bill and filed it in the House, with the title, "American Jobs Act". Amongst other things, it repeals the corporate income tax. That's right, when Obama asked the crowd in Raleigh today (literally), to "Help him pass the American Jobs Act if they love him," little did he know he was drumming up support for Gohmert's Bill!