At long last there is a new trend in employer discrimination and we at Ryan Staffing have nothing to worry about. Did you know that the EEOC recently held a hearing to discuss potential discrimination facing unemployed job seekers?
Although the unemployed are not a protected group, hiring practices that exclude the unemployed from consideration could have a disparate impact on protected groups...Hispanics or African-Americans who have higher unemployment rates as an example.
In the temp business, nearly everyone we hire is unemployed because very few people quit full time employment for a temp job. Further, to keep payroll tax costs down we try hard to first place those that are actively collecting unemployment benefits.
E-VERIFY SELF CHECK AVAILABLE MARCH 18TH
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announce the E-Verify Self Check System of Records will be available March 18, 2011. This voluntary service can be used by job seekers who want to check his/her own work authorization before being hired. This allows you to fix errors. Employers are being cautioned not to use this self check service because it could qualify as pre-screening leading to liability under anti-discrimination provisions of E-Verify.
DOCTORS NOTE RULING REVERSED....CAN REQUIRE "NATURE" OF ILLNESS
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently reversed a lower court ruling that blocked a Columbus Ohio directive requiring employees returning from sick leave submit a doctor's note that include the "nature of the illness".
The lower court invoked Rehabilitation Act and ADA principles in outlawing the practice calling it intrusive and lacking in business necessity. The 6th Circuit did not see it that way ruling that the nature of illness is necessarily a question about whether the employee is disabled.
YOUTH WASTED ON THE YOUNG...AND OTHER STUFF
According to a 2010 survey done by Workplace Options 68% of the general public believes that young people with a high school diploma are not prepared for work. And 35% hold the same true for recent college graduates.
The U.S. is the world's largest manufacturing economy producing 21% of the global output. China is third at 12%. Manufacturing supports 18.6 million jobs in the U.S. or about 1 in 6 private sector jobs (9% of the workforce). The average manufacturing worker earned $72258 in pay and benefits in 2009 versus $58411 for non-manufacturing workers.
Workplace filings involving discrimination increased to 99,922 last year up from 93,277 the year before. Nearly one-third of these were retaliation claims that result when employers retaliate against employees that file charges. The EEOC took in $404 million in monetary relief from employers.
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