Recently, the EEOC held an open meeting to “examine treatment of unemployed job seekers.” During the meeting, several witnesses presented testimony on what some view as a growing problem in the current economy – discrimination against the jobless. The impetus for the meeting started as early as May of 2010, when employment organizations first noticed job postings that explicitly discriminated against the unemployed. These postings ranged from requirements that the person have been employed in the last six months to specific announcements that “no unemployed candidates will be considered at all.”
