2014’s Employment Boom Almost Entirely Due to the Expiration of Unemployment Benefits

Yes. I'm from the south and that's a thing here.

 

Starman, whom I quoted as posting, "I've never pounded the drums to cut off unemployment insurance for anybody."

If you never cut off unemployment, the benefits are indefinite.

Frankly, I'd like to see a sliding scale of benefits, where the most you get is in your first week, and then the amount declines by X percentage each succeeding week until it runs out. Likely would motivate some to not wait until the last moment before giving the job search their hardest effort.

 

Outing alert, TBF is Dan Rather.

 

Even at its peak, the benefits were for 99 weeks. Not indefinite.

 

Tamp em up solid

 

Yes. Because Starman is not deciding such things. They WOULD be indefinite if he had his way. That's what I was taking issue with.

There's really no need to bog this down in more hair-splitting.

 

Obviously, if cutting off unemployment benefits eliminates unemployment, the answer is to cut them off completely. Woohoo! Zero Unemployment!

 

The rail brotherhoods -- the BLE or other -- would NEVER advise a union member to look for work, temporary or other, while awaiting a review. In fact, it's written into the rules most places that they can't. Know what you're talking about before you shoot off your mouth, Mr. Three Jobs.

 

Well that escalated quickly.

 

What is the point of that rule?

 

If you seek other work, that can be taken as evidence you intend(ed) to quit anyway.

And some review boards will dismiss your appeal if you get another job while the review process was in progress, even if your new job is dramatically inferior to your previous union position.

In one sense this is also for the company's protection; they don't want what starts out as a termination-for-cause or disciplinary process against an employee to turn into a bidding war.

Of course in many of these situations the worker may have a pretty good suspicion the decision isn't going to go his way anyway, so the smart person makes second- or third-person inquiries about other jobs while the review is in progress.

 

Because he was a new employee, he was not a member of the union and had no representation. Know what you're talking about before shooting off your trap, Mr. Big Mouth.