Stop Discrimination Against Unemployed Workers

Ross Wallen July 28, 2011 4

CareerBuilder.com, Monster.com and other major employment websites run job ads that prohibit the unemployed from applying.

Employment sites should do the patriotic thing in helping to get Americans back to work and refuse ads from companies that discriminate against unemployed workers.

Please sign here to call on CareerBuilder, Monster.com and all the major employment sites to refuse ads from companies that prohibit the unemployed from applying: http://j.mp/nQNoDi

If you are on Twitter, sign the Act.ly petition: http://act.ly/415

Sign the below letter  here: http://j.mp/nQNoDi

In the middle of a global economic recession, millions of people are unemployed for reasons they cannot control. Now we’ve learned that many companies are specifying in job advertisements that unemployed people cannot apply for open positions.

This is more than unfair to workers — it is devastating, and we urge you to refuse any such advertisements.

For Americans to get back on their feet, they can’t be chained to their involuntary status of unemployment. Please do your part in helping Americans get back to work


  • http://www.PositiveEnergyLifestyle.com Donald Eyermann

    In addition to the petition to bring signatures to the companies prohibiting applications from unemployed people, I wish you would provide a list of the companies doing this….so we could write to them personally, so we can boycott their products and so we can write to their suppliers and even more effectively protest their actions.

    In your chart on the 1966 comparison to 2010 you should have included how much more the wealthy paid in taxes back then compared to now.
    IF my impressions are correct, wasn’t it about 70% then and about 32% now?

    Also, I get all your protests are to make the world a better place, but I think you should also acknowledge and endorse businesses who ARE offering the MEANS to Superior Lifestyle….such as ours….and we’re not alone. Promote the Positive, Accentuate the Appropriate Action of All who are Aspiring to Alleviate the Anguish and Apply Advanced Alternative SOLUTIONS!! Thank you!!

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