| ευλογημένοσ ρεβέκκα  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: heart of America Gender:  Posts: 1,205 Country:  Level up: 41%, 119 Points needed |  |  I could go on and on about experiences with affirmative action as prerequisites. I did not know what a written affirmative action policy was back in the years I was bidding and servicing contracts for state government.
I had in my employee pool of forty people, nine men, thirty-one women, five Hispanics, three Indians any blacks could have been hired had any applied for the jobs. I hired my employees based on their ability to perform the work and their eagerness to have the job I was letting out.
On a contract I bid in another state it required the affirmative action policy in the bidding package submitted. After reading through the state fliers I had to laugh. Any businessperson wants the best employee they can get for a job regardless of their national origin background.
What is needed is tougher standards for companies and agencies that allow discriminatory practices to proceed and continue in the work environment when it happens. Discrimination is alive and well in certain areas. Tax the ones who wish to keep it that away with tougher civil rights agencies, give civil rights some teeth. Leave the others to operate their business effectively.
Personally I have been subject to a lot of discrimination in my day. It is not every where but in those little backwoods places where it continues, give the victims more punch power to help get it stopped and addressed. In the states that refuse to address discrimination start chopping their federal funds. You will get their attention.
If it is in bigger businesses, corporations and organizations fine them for hiring people who violate civil rights to run the joints. Small businesses with 20 or fewer employees should be able to hire only family members if they want.
Adding federal funds to encourage small disadvantage businesses is a waste. Larger companies come along and request the small DBE's to file for the big boys can get their extra cut. Many of those DBE companies are effectively ran by the larger corporate’s. The loss is to the true small business enterprise spirit. Put all those funds from put into these current programs into an actual working program for the little guys. Not an extra 15% to 25% to the large corporation for hiring someone or subbing to someone so they can effectively pull their purse strings whenever they want something. The federal funds are not getting to the actual small disadvantage business enterprises. |