Moved with partner, woman asks jobless pay

The Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | Posted on Fri, Sep. 7, 2007 | By Angela Couloumbis, Inquirer Harrisburg Bureau

[Old Professer]

Reading the whole article it was explained that she is getting exactly what other unmarried couples would get in the same situation; only marriage allows for compensation in this case.

[SueRae]

She should be prosecuted for filing a frivolous suit. She didn’t get laid off, she QUIT the job.

[Neoliberalnot]

Should benefits also be extended to same-sex siblings and interspecies couples?

[FreedomFromGov]

Mmmmmm, lesbians.

[mngran]

I don't think she should get compensation if she was married and left to be with her husband. This is madness.

In many (if not most) states, a spouse is entitled to unemployment compensation if they have to quit a job to move with their spouse. It's designed to help keep families together while the one spouse looks for a new job in the new location. I think that's a good thing. Also, unemployment compensation is really like an insurance contract. You and your employer pay premiums each paycheck and you're entitled to certain stated benefits when certain situations arise. I don't have a problem with this spousal benefit being part of that contract. Whether non-married partners should receive that benefit is an entirely different question.

[TChris]

Her case once again raises the question of whether same-sex couples in long-term, committed relationships are entitled to some of the same benefits that heterosexual married couples enjoy.

No.

Next question?

Stable, married, heterosexual couples create families. They are the very foundation of society. Countless sociological studies have conclusively proven that husband-wife-children families are very, very important to the long-term health of society.

"Progressive", leftist daydreams cannot alter reality. Society has a deeply vested interest in protecting and promoting the traditional family.

[driftless2]

"this is madness"

madness=liberalism. Let liberals create laws for any length of time, and they will come up with some of the most twisted, illogical, brain-dead legalisms ever seen.