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How about we make a law saying that employers have to pay job applicants a minimum of an hour's wage just for the time it takes to apply and get an interview? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like seriously, time is money right? I'm sure most people can relate to wasting time on numerous applications before ever landing a job. If they set that into law, employers will probably be much less likely to reject applicants, and even when they do, you still get paid for your wasted time.

Edit: I'm not particularly referring to the application part alone, I'm referring to application + interview = rejection. People should get paid for someone calling you in, only to end up wasting your time. Hell, I could have spent that time better at the sperm bank.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You're volunteering to apply though...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Right, because "if you don't get a job, you get to live in a cardboard box under a bridge" isn't duress at all.

I'm not saying I'm for OP's plan. I'm still thinking it through. But there's nothing "voluntary" about working for a paycheck, or about applying to do so.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Right... we aren't free. Much like the past, and perhaps even in the future. You cannot get hung up on something that is out of your control. We may live and die 10,000 more times before humanity can know true peace.

The best we got right now is "maybe you to could exploit the working class if you grind hard enough".

Sad as fuck considering our level of technological development. Gatekeeping necessities from people to drive them to do what you want. The extra steps to feudalism is not doing it for me.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's what unemployment is for. :) It's not on the business to pay applicants.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The last time I had unemployment, it was a lousy $64 per week, and only for 3 months no less. Unemployment is a joke.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Depends on your income before you were unemployed... My wife is drawing it right now and it's something like $450 a week for her.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I was working for 6 days a week, 6 hours a day, for $10 per hour, for over 2 years. Yes, $10 an hour sounds like chump change these days, but this was back in like 2007.

Still..

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Yes, true that. I was more specifically refering to the interview part, being a pure waste of time if you're rejected. And if it was an in-person interview, you've not only wasted time, but very likely have burned gas going there and back.

You know the saying "When you don't have a job, your only job is to get a job"? Yeah, I think that saying is about a load of horse shit. If looking for a job is considered a job itself, then I feel people should get paid for their wasted time.

Or, ya know, don't have a system where someone files 73 job applications only to get basically nowhere.