Yep, I’m familiar with the laws surrounding unemployment compensation. However, those were extended for a while to 99 weeks A friend of mine found a guy and offered him job, but we said he couldn’t be at work for 3 weeks. My friend asked why and he said his unemployment benefits didn’t run out for 3 weeks. Cut the time period and guess what happens.
That all ended nationally last year in September the feds cut extended fed benefits in all 50 states there is no 99. No state in the union does more than 52 weeks without fed money not a single one. People who are on UB now have had for work in the last 6 months somewhere for a period of time that varies by state. There is absolutely no way that the current labor shortages are due to people getting work and then getting layed off again in the last 6 months. There has been a structural shift in the labor vs captial market. Add in 3 million plus boomers taking early retirement or actually reaching retirement and you have the sources of the labor shortages. The employers now must compete on the open market which is heavily favored in labor’s corner right now. Offer higher wages than your competitor and people will come. People holding out for the end of UB all got pink slips for that last September at the latest, the red states cut it off last July or some back in May to get federal extended benefits you had to already exhaust your state UB. All that is over in every state and has been. People need to stop beating a dead horse. If McDonald’s needs burger flipers they must now compete with Amazon or uber or door dash or any number of side gigs that pay better.