Posted on 05/26/2013 7:30:56 AM PDT by GraceG
Edited on 05/26/2013 7:33:47 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Workers who lose their jobs would have to clear a drug screening to qualify for unemployment compensation under a proposal approved by the Texas Legislature.
Under current law, employers take out insurance policies to help laid-off workers survive on weekly payments of $62 to $440. Those who are fired for cause, including failing an employer-sponsored drug test, do not qualify.
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“Democrats have blocked a separate measure that would have required drug testing for welfare recipients. “
Of course they have, haven’t they...
If you get government money, you are a defacto government employee, you should at least be held to somewhat of a standard in my opinion.
My ex wife is on disability precisely because of her drug & alcohol addiction.
Oh, yeah, the entire Congress must accept O'Bammmy care for their own coverage.
FMCDH(BITS)
Unemployment ‘benefits’ are insurance which is purchased to protect an employee in the case of job loss. If eligibility is contingent upon some condition, the test should come at application not redemption. Imagine paying for home owners insurance for decades only to learn that you are ineligible to collect after your house burns down — for a reason that was not disclosed until after your home burned.
Furthermore, ineligible employees should be paid/reimbursed the cost of insurance. I’m sure there are plenty of private insurers who will provide coverage.
I find it completely ironic that employees are penalized for recreational drug abuse while welfare beneficiaries are not tested for drug abuse. The former has at least contributed to our GDP.
In a society that decriminalizes, legalizes, and subsidizes drug abuse, it is immoral to deny someone unemployment benefits based on a test conducted at the time of benefit payment. No private firm could conduct a scam like this.
WHAT???
So, the people who have actually been working and who fail a drug test will not be able to receive unemployment insurance and the welfare recipients whose welfare these formerly employed people helped pay for will continue to receive welfare, drugs or not?
Well, the obvious solution is for these former workers to apply for welfare.
“Unemployment ‘benefits’ are insurance which is purchased to protect an employee in the case of job loss.”
The EMPLOYER pays both state and federal for unemployed compensation. The employee does not.
The “ application” is when the former employee applies for unemployment benefits and that is when a drug test may be administered.
Burn you own house down and try to collect the insurance. It's the same with unemployment insurance. If you cause the job loss, you aren't entitled to collect.
As an small business employer, I pay those unemployment insurance benefits, not the employee. I would like to be reimbursed when an ex-employee fails drug testing.
Read your policy — it’s in there.
that’s part of the compensation package
Drug testing not a bad idea....but the cost is just too much. A good accurate drug test runs at least $150. Any cheaper...and you spend more $$ challenging false tests in court.
Imagine paying for home owners insurance for decades only to learn that you are ineligible to collect after your house burns down — for a reason that was not disclosed until after your home burned.
Try conducting illegal activities from your home, have a fire and then try to collect. Its in the fine print.
Wish insurance companies would do the same if someone is texting and has a wreck.... pay liability for other’s damages, but “texters” car not covered.
Kind of unfair to people who HAD a job, but lost their job.
But they let the Welfare folks off the hook?
Wrong, its part of cost of conducting business.
If it was compensation, you’d be paying tax on it.
The dems think welfare collectors vote dem more.
Sometimes steps are better take small, even in Texas. Next comes testing for welfare. Watch em run to Nuevo York. Happy, happy, happy.
I’m all for drug testing — I work in the aerospace industry and am routinely tested. That is not the point.
Does the newly unemployed only have to test once, or subject to ongoing random?
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