If they were laid off, they would be making about $20/hr depending on the state for doing nothing. This is thanks to the $600/wk bonus from the Feds.
However, if they are fired for walking out or refusing to come to work they collect nothing.
I’m not too sure if that extra $600 was a wise decision. Yes it’s saving people from going into debt, but who is going to want to go back to work if they are pulling in $1000 a week in unemployment? $400 base plus $600 bonus. Sure people make more than that working but not everybody does and this goes on to July? Seems to me this was more a deliberate attempt to destroy the economy, a bribe to get people not to work.