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Article

31 Jan 2014

Author:
Roger Runningen & Mike Dorning, Bloomberg News

CEOs take Obama pledge to end bias against long-term unemployed [USA]

President Barack Obama is meeting today with chief executives from Bank of America…to EBay…to ask for help in reducing job discrimination against the long-term unemployed. The White House released a list of 23 corporate or small business leaders joining with Obama and Vice President Joe Biden to discuss better job training to expand manufacturing capacity and help people who have been jobless for years re-enter the workforce…Companies have committed to “best practices” to reduce number of long-term unemployed. Those principles include ensuring that job advertisements don’t discriminate and that screening doesn’t disadvantage people because they’ve been out of the workforce for a lengthy period. Other practices include reviewing recruiting programs so that they cast a wide net to improve job prospects, and sharing ideas between companies and within organizations…[Also refers to Apple, AT&T, Boeing, CVS, JPMorgan Chase, Kroger, Marriott, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Sprint Nextel, Verizon Communications, Walmart]