Michael Bloomberg vetoes bill banning job discrimination against the unemployed

[Report1212]

With a persistently poor economy, one uphill battle unemployed Americans have to face is job discrimination. Many employers explicitly discriminate against jobless Americans, warning them not to even apply.

Joining New Jersey, Oregon, and Washington, D.C., the New York City council recently passed a bill to ban this discrimination. But Mayor Michael Bloomberg just vetoed it. He had previously called the bill “misguided” and claimed that it would “hurt small businesses.”

Read more: http://boldprogressives.org/michael-bloomberg-vetoes-bill-to-ban-job-discrimination-against-the-unemployed/#.USfBR6U4uSo

[upaloopa]

1. Since when is discrimination acceptable?

The best qualified person maybe would never get a chance to apply if she/he were unemployed.

[Report1212]

2. He apparently is fine with discrimination against unemployed/poor

He talks a big game about being so cosmopolitan on other things..

[Macoy51]

3. Outlaw Soda But Not Discrimination?

Wait, he is so concerned about my health that he outlaws large sodas, but doesn’t care enough to outlaw unemployment discrimination?? Does he not realize the stress to your health being unemployed causes?

How about helping all the unemployed find jobs first, and then worry about their waistlines.



Macoy

[EC]

4. are there enough votes to

over ride his veto?

[LAGC]

5. Kick.

This needs to be seen by some of the Bloomberg defenders around here.

[smirkymonkey]

6. Paternalistic scumbag.

I lived in NYC for 12 years until last July, Bloomberg has always been a pig.

[davidn3600]

7. I dont know how you enforce such a law

I mean how do you prove the discrimination?

[dsc]

11. many ads literally read

unemployed need not apply.

[davidn3600]

13. OK...then they dont advertise that anymore

Instead when HR gets a resume from someone unemployed...they simply trash it and say they are "unqualified" for some made up reason.

HR departments do this all the time. They will find ways to get around it.

A lot of executive search firms (headhunters) only deal with people who are already employed. They won't even give you the time of day if you are unemployed.

[Cork]

8. Just another 1% screwing the other 99%,

the difference is this 1% is in charge. Michael Bloomberg is not for the working class people, he's proved time and again that his interest is for the 1%.

[TheKentuckian]

9. Fuhrer Warbucks looking out for the little guy again, is he?

[Angry Dragon]

10. Eat this Mickey

[Brigid]

12. Discrimination against the unemployed . . .

is OK, but soda is not?