Several industry heavyweights signed onto the White House’s...
Several industry heavyweights signed onto the White House’s best practices for recruiting and hiring the long-term unemployed, said a fact sheet the administration released Friday (http://1.usa.gov/1k3M8QR). Companies include Apple, AT&T, CBS, Comcast NBCUniversal, Dell, Disney, eBay, Frontier Communications, Motorola Solutions,…
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Qualcomm, Time Warner Cable, Viacom, 21st Century Fox and LinkedIn. The best practices amount to a commitment to ensuring job advertisements and reviewing procedures don’t discriminate against the unemployed. Recruiting practices should cast a wide net and be reviewed to make that happen, the best practices said. It also called for best practices to be shared. Time Warner Cable has updated its equal employment opportunity statement “to make it clear that job applicants will not be disadvantaged based on their current employment status,” said CEO Rob Marcus in a statement. “Time Warner Cable is pleased to reaffirm our long-held practice of providing equal employment opportunities to the long-term unemployed."