If an employer can't find anyone to fill a job at the salary he is willing to pay, can he complain that he has no choices? What if he had an employee quit, and he is really poor... hopeless you might say.. no choice. We need legislation to fill such positions. You want the poor guy to lose everything and become homeless?
I propose that we have a law that allow employers to sue individuals who refuse to work for him based on totally irrelevant criteria. The federal government should pay for these lawsuits. Unless these prejudicial individuals can prove that they had a valid reason to refuse the job offer, they should be fined or forced to work for that employer. The burden of proof will be on the person who refused the job to demonstrate that he had a good reason (I know this seems contrary to the whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing.. but this is such an important issue that we can't let that get in the way.)
Think about it... an employer being discriminated against because he is gay, or a person of color, or because he thinks he's a she. Or maybe the applicant simply didn't like the appearance of the office. We've come a long way to end discrimination, but I fear we're stopping only half-way. We need to end discrimination on the side of employees as well. You know, they are so greedy, they will just quit and go to another company if they can make more money. Where's the compassion, the humanity? This law will restore such things to the workplace. We need such laws to control the greed and self-interest all too often found in employees.
