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Feds expand unemployment for people afraid to return to work because of coronarivus
Dayton Daily News ^ | February 26, 2021 | Josh Sweigart

Posted on 03/01/2021 1:41:47 PM PST by CheshireTheCat

Ohioans denied unemployment assistance because they refused to work at a jobsite that is unsafe from coronavirus will qualify for benefits and back-pay under a change made this week.

The. U.S. Department of Labor issued guidance Thursday, following a directive from President Joe Biden, to state unemployment agencies expanding eligibility in the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program.

The guidance expands eligibility to three categories of workers:

Workers who had their regular unemployment benefits claims denied after they refused to work or to accept an offer of work somewhere not in compliance with coronavirus health and safety standards.

Workers laid off or who had their work hours reduced as a direct result of the pandemic.

School employees working without a contract or reasonable assurance of continued employment whose pay was cut when schools closed due to coronavirus. The determination that a workplace is unsafe will be based on the attestation of the worker, made under risk of perjury...

(Excerpt) Read more at daytondailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Government; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: heebeejeebee
I was going to post an article about how states are overwhelmed by all the fraudulent unemployment claims coming in, but someone else posted that early this morning.
1 posted on 03/01/2021 1:41:47 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

I feel the heebee jeebees over that Covid thing. Where’s my money?

Oops, forgot. I’m retired. Oh, well.

We all forget the mighty Google was the name of a comic strip character.

Bing fact search said:
In 1923, the spelling “heeby jeebys” was used by U.S. cartoonist Billy De Beck in his comic strip Barney Google (New York American, 26 October 1923). In 1925, the spelling “heebee-jeebees” was used in U.S. magazine Ladies’ Home Journal (Vol. 42, Part 2, p. 44).


2 posted on 03/01/2021 1:48:11 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: CheshireTheCat
The determination that a workplace is unsafe will be based on the attestation of the worker, made under risk of perjury...


Security guard sneezed without a mask on, prove she didn't.

3 posted on 03/01/2021 1:49:15 PM PST by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

that is ridiculous. what the hell are they scared of.


4 posted on 03/01/2021 1:59:41 PM PST by ronniesgal ( no fool like an old fool!)
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To: ronniesgal

Working.


5 posted on 03/01/2021 2:10:44 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (DemocRats would burn the country to the ground to be absolute rulers over the ashes.)
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To: eyedigress

What about doctors, nurses, nursing assistants, grocery store checkers, gas station workers, etc. etc. who had to work or lose their jobs?


6 posted on 03/01/2021 2:16:11 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: ronniesgal

Going back to work to work?


7 posted on 03/01/2021 2:16:47 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: CheshireTheCat

Man this administration is trying as hard as they can to destroy the economy that PDJT built. Gotta do it to get to that global currency and one world socialist gov’t dontcha know.


8 posted on 03/01/2021 2:31:18 PM PST by know.your.why (If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
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To: know.your.why

I am convinced they are destroying it so the only upward growth that is possible under Democrats is movement up from the ashes, and they will point to that as great work.

Mark my words.


9 posted on 03/01/2021 2:36:19 PM PST by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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To: CheshireTheCat

But, why is the directive signed Kamala?(/S)


10 posted on 03/01/2021 2:43:17 PM PST by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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To: CheshireTheCat

And all of a sudden like, everybody feels uncomfortable.

Imagine that.

The determination that a workplace is unsafe will be based on the attestation of the worker, made under risk of perjury...


11 posted on 03/01/2021 2:49:43 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (I have a burning hatred of anyone who would vote for a demented, pedophile, crook and a commie whore)
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To: CheshireTheCat
I am afraid to go looking for a higher paying job. I think I should be compensated.
12 posted on 03/01/2021 2:50:32 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Heh, Leftists, try this idea out for a change:

Perverse incentive. A result that is contrary to the intention of its designers; negative, unintended consequence.


13 posted on 03/01/2021 2:50:54 PM PST by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

The determination that a workplace is unsafe will be based on the attestation of the worker

that’s an interesting angle


14 posted on 03/01/2021 3:01:52 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: CheshireTheCat

Every flipping public school teacher and gay/lesbian teacher.

The problem wth kicking out normal white guys from every strata of public school education.


15 posted on 03/01/2021 4:27:25 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Just show them you didn’t work your job because the workplace didn’t provide safety precautions like social distancing, hygiene and protective equipment. Sure. What business or workplace like that would not be closed down, nailed shut and fined out of existence?

Meanwhile I have friends who have been working at Target, Walmart, Sam’s Club, Home Depot...and they have suffered constant anxiety but could not do anything about it. One has a bad skin infection on her face, probably due to the mask. Nobody’s offering them UI. At one store, several employees are now out with active cases of covid, but no one else there can afford to take time off, anxiety or no.

Personally I think the anxiety is unwarranted — they’re mostly younger people — but it is no different than the anxiety of teachers. Well, actually it is different. Teachers deal with children, not adult customers. Chance of catching covid from kids, versus from shoppers.


16 posted on 03/01/2021 4:36:11 PM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: doc maverick

We are witnessing the government take-over of the Constitution of the United States.


17 posted on 03/01/2021 7:43:26 PM PST by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

This is beyond stupid. There are going to be loafers who’ll claim “fear” over their whole life and enjoy the beach.


18 posted on 03/01/2021 9:52:22 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: CheshireTheCat

How about health care workers? If I’m afraid to go to work do I get my full salary benefits and retirement to sit home and do nothing??? I suppose I could develop a healthy sense of fear if needed.... retroactive for the last year. This is all about coddling teachers unions while the rest of us suck it up and go to work in far more dangerous circumstances


19 posted on 03/01/2021 10:08:25 PM PST by Mom MD
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