Businesses would rather hire somebody with no relevant experience than hire a person who has been unemployed for a long time, according to new researc...
NEW YORK -- New York City will soon have the nation's most far-reaching laws barring employers from shunning out-of-work job applicants, after lawmake...
The New York City Council passed a bill Wednesday that would ban businesses from discriminating against unemployed job applicants. The measure wou...
Neal Cassel lost his job handling computer support for a law firm in October of last year. The Brandon, Fla., resident suspects that his status as one...
WASHINGTON -- Researchers have confirmed something that might have been obvious to unemployed people for a while: The longer a person is out of work, ...
When Mark W. Riley of Little Rock, Ark., became unemployed for the first time in two decades, he ventured into the Great Online. "Once I found out...
A new research paper suggests potential employers think less of unemployed job candidates no matter how briefly they've been out of work. And it doesn...
WASHINGTON -- Philadelphia resident Sheila Whitelaw lost her job as a manager at a clothing store when the store closed in 2010. She suspects she hasn...
Lawmakers are trying to make California the second state in the nation to ban hiring discrimination against the unemployed. A bill introduced Jan. ...
WASHINGTON -- For the past several months one labor advocacy group has continuously hammered companies that list job postings discriminating against t...
Does it really make sense to elevate unemployment to a protected status with race, creed, national origin or anything else protected by the Constitution?
WASHINGTON -- With mounting pressure from worker advocates and an online petition, Indeed.com, the Internet's highest-trafficked job board website, ha...
WASHINGTON -- The parent company for the employment website Monster.com, Monster Worldwide Inc., is taking action to get the progressive advocacy grou...
WASHINGTON -- Job advertisements that require applicants to be "currently employed" are easy to find online. Yet attempts to trace the origins of such...
With so many millions of people unemployed, and frantic to find jobs, companies are routinely flooded with applications for every open position. That flood gives employers the privilege to be very, very picky.
At any time, and in a heartbeat, any of us can become that unemployed job candidate. And if you are over the age of 50, look out; you may be prohibited from being considered for future employment at all..
The number of Americans who have been out of a job for a year or longer has reached a record 4.4 million, roughly equal to the population of Louisiana...
