Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (580783)	8/12/2010 11:49:01 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577890

When I was young I did all kinds of farm work, then constuction work .... but after I got an education I could get better paying work. Are you saying if you were unemployed, you just wouldn't do any of the stuff illegals do in America .... its just beneath you?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (580783)	8/13/2010 7:26:02 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1577890

Obama Administration: Employers Should Consider Hiring Criminals and Deadbeats, So As Not to Be Considered Racist Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:09 pm I know: it sounds like something you’d read in a bad GOP version of “The Onion” — but it’s not: Companies using criminal records or bad credit reports to screen out job applicants might run afoul of anti-discrimination laws as the government steps up scrutiny of hiring policies that can hurt blacks and Hispanics. A blanket refusal to hire workers based on criminal records or credit problems can be illegal if it has a disparate impact on racial minorities, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The agency enforces the nation’s employment discrimination laws. “Our sense is that the problem is snowballing because of the technology allowing these checks to be done with a fair amount of ease,” said Carol Miaskoff, assistant legal counsel at the EEOC. Listen: if it’s really true that blacks and Hispanics are more likely to be criminals and deadbeats — and note well, racists: I didn’t say it, the EEOC did — then maybe they should consider breaking fewer laws and paying their debts on time. That, I would think, would be the solution to any racial disparity — not forcing employers to hire criminals and deadbeats. How far are we going to take this insanity? And how far can you push the American people before we say “enough”? I know this much: if I were an employer, this would be yet another reason not to hire any more employees. Well done, Barry. Well done indeed. patterico.com