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by AnthonyMouse 6 days ago
> 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.