The unemployed aren’t a protected class.? At least, not to the best of my knowledge.? So why is the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) holding a hearing today on possible illegal discrimination caused by company policies that automatically exclude currently unemployed people from the pool of candidates?

Because blacks are unemployed at twice the rate of whites.

I don’t think that executives are sitting in smoke filled rooms cackling evilly “I know how we can get away with not hiring minorities!”? As labor and employment lawyer Jon Hyman points out:

Is the real question, then, not whether unemployment status has a disparate impact, but whether using current employment status is job-

 

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