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.
“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.
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.
Actually, they cancel insurance all the time when you collect like that.