how many weeks they get??? and extensions?
Posted on 10/14/2008 5:00:17 PM PDT by RLM
Assembly Labor and Employment Committee Chairman Sandre Swanson, D-Alameda, says lawmakers are going to have to work across the aisle to fix California's unemployment insurance fund, which will be broke by January.
He apparently means lawmakers should be talking about raising the payroll tax that employers pay on each worker to bankroll the state unemployment fund. And for Legislative Republicans presumably still smug about preventing any tax increases in this year's budget fiasco, that's going to be a tall order.
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and just think the job cuts are just beginning
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Big time.
EDD said the reason for firing him was sufficient for him to not collect, but they gave it to him anyway.
It used to be that the EDD favored not giving payments to miscreants, but now they seem to like to.
No problemo, just tell them to call uncle Paulie and he will give them a bailout.
EDD said the reason for firing him was sufficient for him to not collect, but they gave it to him anyway.
The unemployment comp bureaucrats , like most bureaucrats, like to take the easiest path in their jobs.
They may well have thought that the claimant was more likely to make an appeal if he was denied, as opposed to the employer appealing the approval.
Appeal hearings are work, and may well be a hassle for them-even though it is their job. It might be a good strategy to bluff the bureaucrats out and make them realize (even if it ain’t true) that you WILL appeal when you are in contact with them.
Several were missed in this case, good reasons were given and a form letter sent to the employer explaining the deadlines.
It seems they want to give out as much money as possible to fired workers.
No wonder they are going bust.
I imagine the employer in this case will get a bump in their % o EDD for unemployment insurance.
This law is so abused. I found out that employees at the local University receive unemployment when they are on christmas break. I know a guy( I think they all do it) who makes great money working outages for Nuclear Plants. They draw unemployment between jobs. Alot work off the book at other jobs also during that time. It is rife with abuse.
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how many weeks they get??? and extensions?
Employers should fund individual employee accounts that act as savings vehicles that workers can draw on when unemployed, and rollover to IRAs at retirement. If the govt wants to offer “unemployment insurance” they can tax these accounts to pay for it.
The political pendulum will swing when it's many people being taxed to pay for this fraud ridden scheme rather the a smaller number of employers.
That's one possibility, as a benefit of employment, but I wouldn't want the government to mandate it.
Another possibility, since this is insurance we're talking about, is to get the government out of the business and turn it over to private insurance companies. Employees could buy the insurance or not.
Private companies have a lot more incentive than the government to make sure that the claims are valid. Making it private would cut down on fraud and abuse quite a bit.
Perhaps for very short term. But really, employees should save for a rainy day instead of looking for a bailout. Way, way too many people abuse unemployment. In some states, trade union workers put in about 8-9 months and get unemployment the other 3 - every year.
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