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by pseudalopex 7 days ago
The proposed law would require disclosure. Not legal penalty for no hire before the projected date.

Employers can reject candidates for employment gaps. They can do this without allowing candidates to explain. Or they can decide to reject an explanation. Candidates should have equivalent information. And equivalent choice.

> The actual way to improve it is to reform the laws that cause companies to list jobs they have no true intention of filling as a requirement for complying with some other law.

The evidence this is the real problem is what?

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> Employers can reject candidates for employment gaps.

They can also reject candidates for a thousand other reasons, so if you make any given reason an inconvenience or liability risk then they just claim it was one of the others.

> The evidence this is the real problem is what?

It's a known problem with, for example, H1B. They're required to advertise for a job before they can hire H1B, but they don't actually want to hire the applicants because they just want to hire the H1B, so then you get a sham listing where no candidates will be accepted.