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Everyone should read this well-written and brilliant piece by Robert Eshelman on Common Dreams:
The Secret War Against American Workers
The Unemployment Story No One Notices
The skinny of it is that employers are finding and inventing excuses – any excuse – to fire people in order to avoid paying unemployment. Technically, if you get fired for a “reason”, you can be denied unemployment payments. So, employers (who actually desire to do layoffs but don’t want to pay unemployment) watch their employees like a hawk and use the tiniest of infractions and technicalities as an excuse to terminate. They’re getting away with it.
THIS is the kind of thing that should be generating the kind of outrage we’ve seen directed at AIG. (And thanks to Common Dreams and Eshelman for raising the issue.) I would like to see carefully-crafted legislation written to prevent this.
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