Whatever else he said in his news conference on the economy last week, President Obama did acknowledge that the government must take care to avoid any policy that “further crimps the desire of companies to hire more people.” If the president really wants to end anti-employment policies, the best place to start would be his own Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The EEOC exists to guard against discrimination in the workplace. As Justice Clarence Thomas, a former EEOC chairman, once said, “In a perfect world, you don’t need EEOC [but] this is not a perfect world.” Of all the federal agencies that deserve our support, “EEOC is at the top of that list.”
Unfortunately, a recent memo released by the EEOC raises serious doubts about the agency’s current policies. According to its attorneys, companies risk federal prosecution under the Americans with Disabilities Act if they seek out job applicants with high-school diplomas.
More specifically, the EEOC attorneys assert that a company should not screen out applicants without high school diplomas, unless the company is ready to prove that the diploma requirement is consistent with “business necessity.” And even then, the company also must prove that an applicant without a diploma actually lacks the skills necessary to carry out the job’s “essential functions.” The legal problem, the EEOC says, is discrimination against people with learning disabilities.
This astonishing requirement places an enormous burden on employers, who would either have to stop screening on the basis of diplomas, or go to great pains to prove that each applicant without a diploma is unqualified.
Read More at The Washington Times. C. Boyden Gray.
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Why doesn’t someone STIFLE the Disease in Office? He can’t talk coherently without a teleprompter anyway, and what he does say is so insulting and stupid that the mind cannot grasp the total ignorance from this complete ignoramous. he lies with every opening of those great big purple lying lips. He is a Walking Lie, and a Highly Communicable Disease, and spreads his disease across the land like a plague. Someone needs to stifle him straight out of the White House, and onto a boat, preferably with leaks, with directions to africa, from whence he came. Stifle him, oh, please do stifle this flappy earred, and flapping purple lying lips. God knows he has stifled the American people and their ability to work, and speak as free citizens of a free country! If he has his way, he will completely STIFLE us all to DEATH! And, I am not yet in the mood to be so stifled!