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California Considers Joining Small but Significant Trend Toward Prohibiting Discrimination Against Unemployed Job Applicants

Posted in Discrimination, Retaliation and Harassment

The California assembly recently continued a trend of federal and state legislatures seeking to prohibit discrimination against unemployed job applicants. Later this month, the California assembly will consider passage of a bill that would prohibit discriminating against an employee on the basis of his or her status as unemployed, and it also would prohibit publishing job advertisements that exclude the unemployed from submitting job applications.Continue reading this entry