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.

    • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      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.

        • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
          4·
          2 months ago

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

          • jordanlund@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 months ago

            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.

            • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
              2·
              2 months 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…

            • Bronzebeard@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              14 days ago

              Ah yes, only 17% what I make in a week at a job. Surely that’ll keep my household running efficiently

    • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      2 months 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.