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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3213 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It Just Makes Common Sense

I can only speak for California and Washington, but in those two states you forfeit unemployment for any week you:

A) undetake any schooling or training

B) do any free work

C) report any illness

D) report for jury duty

You also forfeit if you don't list the three new people you contacted looking for work (unless you're union, in which case "fuck you, I'm on the available for work list" suffices). So. Don't get sick, don't do an internship, don't volunteer, don't improve your skills or we'll revoke your money that you paid into the system during better times. "

The extent to which conservatives will go to discourage "freeloaders" is appalling.





hootsbox  ·  2370 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Misguided, but all too typical, California ruling (formulated by mostly Democrat state legislators)

kleinbl00  ·  2370 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Do you seriously think any other state is different?

tacocat  ·  2370 days ago  ·  link  ·  

In Georgia I was denied unemployment after a lay off because they went back six months to look at my work history, skipping over the six months of steady work history I had. What was I doing before I started to work? Going to school

hootsbox  ·  3209 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Stupid governmental designed rules there, just like welfare rules at the federal level.