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It's my understanding that if your employer offers you your old job back and you refuse unemployment stops. One of the questions asked on the unemployment site certification is "Did you refuse any offer of work or fail to go for a scheduled job interview?"
Answering yes to this question will flag you for follow up. When they ask you why you refused your old job and you tell them "I make more on unemployment" I suspect you will lose your claim.
Asi explained, the Dems were refusing to put forth a bill granting the $1200 emergency relief unless it also bribed people to stay unemployed. Trump was in a no-win position, thanks to the devious Democrats.
Trump should have insisted the Senate put forth a bill for the emergency aid only and insisted it stand on it's own, "no package deals". And then advertise it to the public. The Dems have to vote yeah or nay on it alone, no way to vote nay and claim it's about other parts of the bill.
Are employers required to report the name of every person, along with their SS number, who refused a job offer?
Also, why are you ignoring the $600 a week in ADDITION to the regular $275? It’s the extra $600 giveaway that is creating the problem! That’s almost $900 a week, or close to $4000 a month. No low-level employee getting $10 an hour is going to go back to their tedious job when they can get 4 grand a month if they stay unemployed.
U.S. Labor Department guidance “does make clear that basic fear of exposure won’t be enough to refuse suitable work,” said Michele Evermore, a senior policy analyst at the National Employment Law Project, which advocates for expanded worker protections and benefits.
In Florida, you now have to prove that you're applying for jobs. That was suspended for about a month. Not that most people were able to pull their benefits anyway... there are still a huge number of people not getting anything because the system is (intentionally) archaic and designed to be difficult to use.
The extra $600, as I understand it, was twofold: First, it was to provide funds for parents who still needed to pay for childcare to hold their kids' places even though the kids were not going. Many daycare centers continue/d to charge despite not being open. And it also helped pay for health insurance premiums that were going unpaid by employers during the layoffs.
The other reason for the extra was to try to stimulate the economy. And let's face it: The ones making very low wages are the ones most likely to "stimulate the economy" by buying things that they need (or, in some cases, don't need) with their stimulus checks and/or that extra money each week.
And also keep in mind that for a large percentage, that "extra" wouldn't really be extra over what they typically make. If you normally make $1,000/week (a bit under the average income in Florida) and the cap is $275, then the most you'd get with the extra $600 is still only $875. The only people making out in this deal are those who make very low wages to begin with.
family member is a mechanic his shop "furloughed" all the guys who did the grunt work i.e. things like oil changes and tires. They kept the real mechanics on to do this work as "essential workers". the mechanics took a big pay cut(basically 50%) because such jobs don't pay a real commission rate but earned them just enough not to get any Government subsidies. Meanwhile the low end guys they cut are taking home a 1k a week, twice their normal salary. Recently they decided to bring one guy back and he refused saying why should he come back at half pay? They had to tell him to be there within two days or else they would inform unemployment he refused to take his job back. I imagine a lot of employers are going to have to threaten this and follow up on it.
And so they should! if you refuse, you lose, but many want to work and cannot. I do not think the majority is of those that refuse. My barber grandson could not wait- and he is back and my other grand still cant return and going nuts. However, if others are afraid, why would you not be?? Did the employer make the workplace safer?? One thing is for sure - in restaurants, bars etc. people open their mouths to eat and drink- who then has to deal with your dirty plates and forks etc after?
But with coronavirus cases continuing to mount across the U.S., not everyone is ready to get back to life as normal. According to a survey from The Washington Post and the University of Maryland, 67% of Americans say they would be uncomfortable going into a store and 78% say they would be uncomfortable eating at a restaurant.
Errr....won't a lot of businesses just do what they already do and pay people under the table?
I mean seriously folks we have 6mil illegals in the US, let's not pretend that people can't work off the books and thus double collect.
bring a good point under the table- pay-- OH YASS these folks are getting zero benefits- mind you--not all are illegal either. Many times the convicts or folks with other issues go for these jobs too
Last edited by tinytrump; 05-18-2020 at 09:10 AM..
It's my understanding that if your employer offers you your old job back and you refuse unemployment stops. One of the questions asked on the unemployment site certification is "Did you refuse any offer of work or fail to go for a scheduled job interview?"
Answering yes to this question will flag you for follow up. When they ask you why you refused your old job and you tell them "I make more on unemployment" I suspect you will lose your claim.
Nice try, but the Leftists had Trump over a barrel - delaying the bill until they could get their demands met. Trump knew people needed money, and Dems essentially said "give them TWICE what they could earn or they get nothing at all."
It took Republicans in the Senate to go along too.
Republicans say to hell with fiscal sanity when they control the White House.
You can hold Trump accountable without being a liberal.
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