Posted on 07/06/2020 4:41:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
for what it’s worth, at my company most of us have returned to work.
I have yet to see the ‘stimulus’ loan on my future tax refunds. Only thing I have seen was a letter from DJT telling me I was getting $2,400 for me & the wife.
If they sent it the form of a debit card, my local post office pilfered it.
Austin mayor is pushing for a minimum 35 day complete city wide closure.
Right...the only way I see out of this is to replace it with a single lump sum payment up front - get the money, but then still have incentive to return to work.
the 600 per week is a gimmick that they will use to demand a $15 minimum wage.
600 ÷ 15=40 hours
They may even go so far as to demand a living wage and which would be $2,400 per month.
No reason to get off the couch if 2,3 or 4 people are getting that kind of loot
Did you miss the part where people are getting paid an extra $600 per week on top of their regular unemployment? Bartenders and servers in my area are getting paid the equivalent of roughly $23/hr to stay home. If they go to work, they lose money. That's the whole point of this article. There's incentive not to work even when it is available.
Employers are being told to report people who refuse to come back. Most employers I know...simply won’t. They are taking the stand the job was offered and refused...you’ll be replaced sooner or later.””
I have been a payroll supervisor in the past—with 750 on the weekly payroll.
Those “Employers’ need an education.
They have a responsibility to report a person who refuses to come back to work.
They may still have to replace that employee-—but the EMPLOYER can prevent the bad employee from getting paid when they should NOT be paid unemployment.
So turning them in for turning down work is not going to be good for business or their friendships.”””
I do NOT have friends with those standards.
He’s also a real estate agent during the day and lost 2 deals in April because of the clients’ economic uncertainty due to the virus. There are many ppl whose livelihoods have taken a huge hit from the shutdown through no fault of their own. The govt has no right to decide winners and losers by not allowing ppl to work during this pandemic debacle, and they have an obligation to make those ppl whole by extending the pandemic assistance program.
They may even go so far as to demand a living wage and which would be $2,400 per month.”””
Will that apply to people on Social Security also?
It would mean a 100% increase for me....:) :)
Come on. I know bartenders that pull in 500 dollars or more on weekends. They do t need that little 600 dollars.
Places that are open are allowed to be at 25% capacity. Some places couldn't even reach capacity. (I was in New Orleans a couple of weeks ago and never saw the city so dead.) Where I live, there is no inside service.
So the point of the article is that the extra $600 per week creates a disincentive to work. I overheard the bartenders in NOLA who returned to work talking about how little they made in tips and that it would have been better to stay home. So I actually heard them say exactly what this article is stating.
Well that’s true right now.
I have a young relative whose income is seasonal, or at least intermittent, and six hundred dollars is not equal to what she earns when allowed to do her work. The whole spectrum of activity that goes on in the spring and early summer. Graduation affairs, prom apparel and other events. Weddings with showers, flowers, gowns and other apparel, and so on. Celebrations and special events, birthdays, births, anniversaries, reunions. Endless occasions for hiring caterers, renting spaces, hiring help for whatever the event. Her small business is herself. She is involved at one time or another in all of the above paying events. This year, she was cut off almost entirely from income for this block of time. Next is the fall with its own calender of celebratory events. She hates being on the dole, loves her job beyond the income. Outgoing and friendly and she has no legal alternative to replacing her income. Those who abuse the free money are not helping to get this economy back on track. The rest deal with their own situation as best they can. They still have the regular bills, mortgage or rent, car payments, doctor and other medical bills, on and on. Families to feed and take care of. Six hundred is not enough for some and way too much for malingers.
For every situation like your husband’s, there are ten scams going. If your job is calling you back to work, you should be required to go or lose your benefits. (How UI is supposed to work)
Holding out to milk the system isn’t right either.
In my husband’s case, the entire restaurant staff has been furloughed, which means they’re planning on bringing them all back when they reopen in November. The casino just reopened for a second time for gaming only and they’ve been contacting the furloughed staff to ask if they wanted to work as a “cleaning specialist” at $12/hr. My husband has been a server in some capacity for over 45 years and makes $30-35/hr on average in the casino steakhouse. He also has an MBA. Not one server took the job. Should they be punished for that? Remember, no one asked for their lives to be upended like this so it’s not the employees’ fault.
Why would they want to be friends any longer with someone like that? Someone that is willing to sit it out to collect more money?
...offer the Republican deal (back-to-work bonus and stimulus checks) and blame the House Democrats more loudly and widely for stalling the bill.
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And the proggies cry crocodile tears: “The GOP cares more about the economy than about people’s LIIIIIIIIIIIIVES.”
They have this down to a science.
...they got cocky that the virus was over.
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NPR (had to) report today that the number of deaths has fallen below the CDC official level for a designated pandemic.
It is over. The media and the DS are simply pimping the wrong numbers, making them large enough to garner attention without any context.
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