Report: California Job Market Among States Least Affected By Covid-19

[aslowdodge]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Child care centers for essential workers is open.

https://www.ktvu.com/news/california...ential-workers

Boy and Girl Scouts will find a way to keep their service organizations strong.

I would think the scouts could keep going as I remember they had smaller groups as part of a larger group, like maybe 10 people? It wouldn’t be too hard to do activities and keep distance with a smaller group.

[Electrician4you]

Here is this guy who has opened and some employees refuse to come to work because they make Moore on unemployment. I would be calling the unemployment office and telling them these people are not coming to work. Do what you want. I would also never rehire them when they would want to come back.

https://apple.news/AFEgm3M3hTRm1P3FZTmpgvw

A California restaurant owner says almost half of his employee don't want to return to work, claiming that some say they are making more on unemployment than when they were working.
Giorgio Pierangeli contacted the staff who worked at his restaurant, The Local Table, in Newbury Park after Ventura County announced last week that restaurants could resume dine-in services.

But only around half of the restaurant's 50 employees agreed to come back to work despite his assurances that social distancing would be practiced and the restaurant would operate at limited capacity, Pierangeli told CBS Los Angeles.

"Some people seem to have valid reasons like, 'I don't want to come and expose myself, I have my parents, they're older at home. I don't want to come back and put them at risk," he told the station.
"Some other people, they were saying they were making more money on unemployment than when they were working."

I wonder if these are the same people going on rent strikes.

[TR95]

Originally Posted by Electrician4you

Here is this guy who has opened and some employees refuse to come to work because they make Moore on unemployment. I would be calling the unemployment office and telling them these people are not coming to work. Do what you want. I would also never rehire them when they would want to come back.

https://apple.news/AFEgm3M3hTRm1P3FZTmpgvw

It’s very rampant. Wonder what all those will do come 7/31 when that extra $600 a week goes away. And Pelosi wanted to try to extend it until 1/31/21. When will people wake up? People earning $15/hr are now making $50k sitting at home. No wonder there haven’t been riots yet.

[joosoon]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Boy and Girl Scouts will find a way to keep their service organizations strong.

Maybe. I hope so, but I have serious doubts. One of my kids is still in scouts and it's just not the same to do a Zoom meeting and call it an event. The whole point of scouting is getting kids together for hands-on activities. BSA was suffering enough as it was with the lawsuit settlements, etc. This may very well be the final nail in that coffin. Next year, it's going to be hard to justify the expense of it all if we're still just doing virtual get togethers. People can do that for free on their own.

[CaliRestoration]

Originally Posted by TR95

It’s very rampant. Wonder what all those will do come 7/31 when that extra $600 a week goes away. And Pelosi wanted to try to extend it until 1/31/21. When will people wake up? People earning $15/hr are now making $50k sitting at home. No wonder there haven’t been riots yet.

California is also one of the bigger voices about wanting another Federal bailout (along with New York, and Illinois).

[Electrician4you]

Originally Posted by TR95

It’s very rampant. Wonder what all those will do come 7/31 when that extra $600 a week goes away. And Pelosi wanted to try to extend it until 1/31/21. When will people wake up? People earning $15/hr are now making $50k sitting at home. No wonder there haven’t been riots yet.

That’s the crazy thing man. It’s temporary at best. This type of spending and support can’t go on. It’s fiscally impossible.

But I can tell you that I already spoke to a few people who own their own company and they all said they will not hire anyone who has been unemployed for too long. These guys were around in 09-13 crunch and they got a lot of losers who were out of work a long time. They learned.
None will hire anyone who is unemployed a long time.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by Electrician4you

Here is this guy who has opened and some employees refuse to come to work because they make more on unemployment. I would be calling the unemployment office and telling them these people are not coming to work.

...states don’t allow laid-off workers to just keep collecting unemployment benefits after their employer asks them to come back. There must be special circumstances for them to refuse a job offer and retain unemployment benefits (more on that in a minute).

According to Glenn Spencer, senior vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s employment policy division, the Department of Labor signs off on state unemployment insurance plans once a year to make sure they are in compliance with federal law. Then it’s up to states to implement and enforce them.

Mnuchin appears to believe the problem is in enforcement. He has called for businesses that receive forgivable Paycheck Protection Program loans to alert state unemployment agencies about laid-off workers who won’t come back to their jobs. The underlying assumption seems to be that the country is rife with people willing to commit unemployment insurance fraud.

Which brings us back to special circumstances. According to the COVID-19 guidance issued by the California Employment Development Department, “if your employer has complied with the state’s requirements for reopening, and any and all government safety regulations, you may not have good cause to refuse to return to work and could be disqualified from continuing to receive regular [unemployment] benefits for a designated period of time.”

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...k-disincentive

[Eli34]

The Economist magazine was talking about this, just wait until all these government handouts end, then we are going to see real economic pain when people lose that income and don't have jobs to go back to. As long as this virus hangs around we are not going back to full economic function either.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9v6givfTEA