Posted on 05/19/2020 11:51:45 AM PDT by knighthawk
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warned on Tuesday that individuals who reject an offer from their company to return to work after being laid off due to coronavirus are no longer considered eligible to receive federal unemployment benefits.
Mnuchin said that companies receiving benefits under the Payroll Protection Program who are inviting employees who had been laid off or furloughed due to the coronavirus crisis to return to work should plan to notify state unemployment offices of their offers.
If the employee, in turn, turns down the job, they would then be considered ineligible to receive expanded unemployment benefits.
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About time they announced this Policy.
GOOD!
Common sense, so uncommon these days it’s shocking when it’s employed
This Trump lackey is clearly racist and wants Americans to die.
(Hey, just trying to get the jump on CNNABCNBCMSNBCCBS)
Boom!
Well, that makes sense
I am so tired of people milking this system. If you work less than 15 hours per week you get a check for $600 and unemployment benefits. There was no incentive to go back to work.
I’m fine with it as long as the Office Policy doesn’t require masks.
It’s normal or nothing.
I think the problem is ‘how’. If the employer tells the State then the employee will just get mad and may consider retribution in some form.
I think the State needs to actively call prior employer. Even then, there’s a lot of people to check on.
I’m not sure how to implement this...
Private businesses can set whatever policies they want around attire, including masks or gloves or whatever else. No one is forced to work for any employer. The waitresses in Vegas have to wear next to nothing to serve drinks at the tables. If that doesn’t work for them, they can go serve drinks somewhere else (probably for a lot less money.)
Understandably different if the state is forcing it, but I fully support the right of private property owners and private businesses to have autonomy over what happens on their own property.
Mnuchin is right: if people can’t work, then give them some short term unemployment assistance (especially if they can’t work because of government action). If they CHOOSE not to work, then let them live with that choice, but for goodness sake, don’t subsidize lazy people!
It is the responsibility of the employer to inform the state unemployment authorities that any employee(s) are refusing to return to work.
I recommend:
Write a form letter. Keep copy of every letter you send to all employees in their files. Send letter CErtified Return Receipt Requested, Signature Required. Keep receipts in files.
Send e-mail & keep copy in files.
IF any telephone communications, keep a LOG & copy in files, including date & time of conversation.
ANY employee who doesn’t return to work is effectively a QUIT & they are NOT eligible for unemployment.
The burden is on the EMPLOYER to notify the authorities. Phone or in person. Be prepared to back up your efforts to notify employee & inform them to return.
Be diligent & detailed. Do not get lazy & get in the middle of an unemployment fraud case. It will eat up your energy & your time.
I will answer any other questions. Been in a couple of these ‘Quit or didn’t Quit’ fights before. NONE got unemployment.
“There was no incentive to go back to work.”
This is spot on but I don’t blame people for “milking the system”. The “system” was stupid to set something like this up in the first place where you can make $1000/wk not working or $600 working.
Still, I am grateful to be considered “essential personnel” and have been working throughout all this.
If you think this is bad? If you had no job when all of this started in Pennsylvania you’re able to get $795 per week for nothing.
You may not have even been looking for a job.
$795 a week.
My son was sort of in this situation. He went to work for a company that bankrupted themselves less than three months after he started. (They still owe him at least three weeks pay)
Because of his short time there, he wasn’t eligible for unemployment.
His former boss made a call on his behalf and he got hired somewhere else without even an interview. Then comes COVID.
He was only there a month but still got coverage.
He’s back at work. He lives with his Grandma and she won’t charge rent so his only expense is food
Tonight
He lived cheap and saved his money. He’s looking at a new used Jeep tonight
I completely agree...it’s just that little good can come out of it. How many will see it as ‘spoiling things’ for them? Probably a lot. What will they do? Some might return without issue. Some might return and spit in food. Some might actually get violent. Some will quit and refuse to work for that employer again.
A friend of mine just notified employees that “he’s hiring”. In other words, you’re being replaced as of right now, so when that check stops coming you’ll be out of a job. Some came back but not all.
As it should be.
It’s normal or nothing.
And if they do require masks? Do you stay home and forfeit unemployment?
Yes pretty much as it’s always been. If the state department of labor find you a job and you don’t take it you forfeit your unemployment if you take job you forfeit your unemployment. Last I heard unemployment is not well there It is unless your government Employee In which case you get paid whether you work Or not
I’ve been in the same situation as you twice. 1 situation though that I have not been in Is the case of the chronic unemployment collector.This is the person Who takes a job because the State mkes him take the job or forfeit unemployment if the job is offered And then makes all efforts to be fired for cause whereupon He can once again collect unemployment. Or so I am told.
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