The Fair Employment Opportunity Act of 2011 (H.R. 2501) has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Representatives Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut and Henry Johnson, Jr. of Georgia. The bill is designed to prohibit discrimination in employment on the basis of an individual's status or history of unemployment. The legislation, if passed by the House and Senate, would apply to employers with over 15 employees and would provide protection to job applicants who are discriminated against because they are unemployed.
Regardless of one's political affiliation, this is a bill all Americans should support. One's current employment status has literally nothing to do with how they will perform in their next employment position, with rare exceptions. And even given those exceptions, discrimination is absolutely unacceptable in this instance (as well as numerous others).
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h2501/show
Today, a call to action. Follow the link above and click "Support" on the right to show your support for this bill. Any one of us could be in this group at any given time, and we certainly wouldn't want to be discriminated against based on something completely unrelated to one's experience, knowledge, or skills.
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