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Biden: Americans who fear COVID-19 at work are entitled to jobless benefits
cbsnews ^ | 01/22/2021 | Kate Gibson

Posted on 01/25/2021 1:30:13 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

President Joe Biden is calling on the Department of Labor to make this clear: Workers are entitled to refuse employment that jeopardizes their health, without sacrificing unemployment benefits.

The issue is one that's played out differently state-by-state, with millions of Americans facing the choice of toiling at the front lines of a deadly pandemic or losing their ability to put food on the table.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: benefits; biden; covid; jobless
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This will give people the idea to quit their job and just sit on their butts at home.
1 posted on 01/25/2021 1:30:13 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

what about if i sign up for a job, then i fear falling on my way to work- can i get jobless benefits too?


2 posted on 01/25/2021 1:31:13 PM PST by Bob434
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Plus the additional $600 sweetener each month, word is you can get about 50k. So why bother with a 15/hr wage when you can make 50k for nothing?


3 posted on 01/25/2021 1:34:46 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“toiling at the front lines of a deadly pandemic...” Toiling? What are they doing? Breaking rocks? Constructing the pyramids?


4 posted on 01/25/2021 1:35:34 PM PST by PA Presbyterian (Never Surrender!)
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Odds are better for me dying in a fiery crash with an unlicensed and uninsured illegal alien that me dying of COVID.


5 posted on 01/25/2021 1:35:34 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: 1Old Pro

So, a no show job, free money, and presumably some sort of criminal job on the side.

Biden’s on a roll.


6 posted on 01/25/2021 1:38:18 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m afraid I might get sick, so pay me to stay home? Nice work, if you can get it!


7 posted on 01/25/2021 1:38:20 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Commie POS.


8 posted on 01/25/2021 1:38:56 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The teachers union is going to love this! But first they need to lose their jobs.

The teachers are refusing to go back in Chicago and the city is doing nothing about it. This is K-8. High school has not even gone back into session, so thank goodness, those precious HS teachers are safe!

Doing nothing and collecting their paychecks, all of them. Fire them, all of them. Then they can get unemployment.


9 posted on 01/25/2021 1:39:47 PM PST by livius
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The fear pandemic will be worse than the covid.
10 posted on 01/25/2021 1:39:54 PM PST by CVS-20
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is a payment to the teachers unions.


11 posted on 01/25/2021 1:40:40 PM PST by Freee-dame
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And let me guess, the companies are supposed to reserve a job for them in addition to paying health benefits in the interim?


12 posted on 01/25/2021 1:40:55 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Exponential Cloward - Piven.

~Easy


13 posted on 01/25/2021 1:41:55 PM PST by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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That could be a really big problem. I mean, why would you work?


14 posted on 01/25/2021 1:42:10 PM PST by Onthebrink
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Taxpayers, our kids, and our grandkids support lazy deadbeats.

Spit.


15 posted on 01/25/2021 1:42:50 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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If i self identify as triplets, can i get triple the amount of benefits?


16 posted on 01/25/2021 1:42:50 PM PST by lowbridge
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reminds me of an idiot that once called my office to sy she wouldnt be in to work because she had a vision she would die in a car accident if she dame in. My reply to her...I am having a vision that you will have a pink slip in your mailbox if you DONT show up for work tonight!


17 posted on 01/25/2021 1:46:28 PM PST by MagUSNRET ((" I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of he night"))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

WHAT A NIGHTMARE THIS WOULD BE.


18 posted on 01/25/2021 1:47:57 PM PST by Hildy (In an unforgiving world, only the shameless survive.)
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So what if your employer mandates the vaccine & you fear that getting the ‘vaccine’ endangers your health ... can you get jobless benefits? Asking for a friend.


19 posted on 01/25/2021 1:48:01 PM PST by Qiviut (2020 Election steal result: We are beginning our "40 years of wandering in the Wilderness".)
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What happened?

Don’t leave us hanging.


20 posted on 01/25/2021 1:48:39 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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