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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums5 GOP-led states extend unemployment aid to workers who lose jobs over vaccine mandates
At least five Republican-led states have extended unemployment benefits to people whove lost jobs over vaccine mandates and a smattering of others may soon follow.
Workers who quit or are fired for cause including for defying company policy are generally ineligible for jobless benefits. But Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Kansas and Tennessee have carved out exceptions for those who wont submit to the multi-shot coronavirus vaccine regimens that many companies now require. Similar ideas have been floated in Wyoming, Wisconsin and Missouri.
Critics contend that these states are incentivizing people to skip shots that public health experts say offer the best line of defense against the coronavirus. Business leaders and industry groups have argued against the rule changes because, they say, companies would shoulder much of the costs. And the efforts are playing out as the Biden administration is pressing immunization rules for private companies and as coronavirus cases are surging again because of the fast-spreading omicron variant.
Observers say its a mark of the politicization of the coronavirus with fights flaring over business closures, mask mandates and more and how it has scrambled state politics and altered long-held positions. It wasnt long ago, they note, that two dozen Republican-led states moved to restrict unemployment aid to compel residents to return to the workforce and ease labor shortages.
Workers who quit or are fired for cause including for defying company policy are generally ineligible for jobless benefits. But Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Kansas and Tennessee have carved out exceptions for those who wont submit to the multi-shot coronavirus vaccine regimens that many companies now require. Similar ideas have been floated in Wyoming, Wisconsin and Missouri.
Critics contend that these states are incentivizing people to skip shots that public health experts say offer the best line of defense against the coronavirus. Business leaders and industry groups have argued against the rule changes because, they say, companies would shoulder much of the costs. And the efforts are playing out as the Biden administration is pressing immunization rules for private companies and as coronavirus cases are surging again because of the fast-spreading omicron variant.
Observers say its a mark of the politicization of the coronavirus with fights flaring over business closures, mask mandates and more and how it has scrambled state politics and altered long-held positions. It wasnt long ago, they note, that two dozen Republican-led states moved to restrict unemployment aid to compel residents to return to the workforce and ease labor shortages.
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5 GOP-led states extend unemployment aid to workers who lose jobs over vaccine mandates (Original Post)
spanone
Dec 2021
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Pinback
(12,170 posts)1. They'll just use the money to buy drugs.
Casady1
(2,133 posts)2. Four of those states
TN, FL, AR and IA stopped UE early.
NowISeetheLight
(3,943 posts)3. Don't fire them...
Just suspend them. No termination? Your not unemployed.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,234 posts)4. Living off the dole.
EleanorR
(2,395 posts)5. So they don't object to government benefits as long as they go to the "right" people?
Do republicans believe in or stand for anything other than making sure their people are rewarded and stay in power and the other side is punished? And isn't that simply what autocrats around the world do?