{"id":267210,"date":"2020-06-05T06:22:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T11:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/republican-rush-to-reopen-states-means-unemployment-cutoffs-for-terrified-workers"},"modified":"2020-06-05T06:22:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T11:22:15","slug":"republican-rush-to-reopen-states-means-unemployment-cutoffs-for-terrified-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/republican-rush-to-reopen-states-means-unemployment-cutoffs-for-terrified-workers","title":{"rendered":"Republican rush to reopen states means unemployment cutoffs for terrified staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Republican governors move to reopen ventures in their positions before it&rsquo;s safe to do so, they&rsquo;re risking certain people&rsquo;s lives more than others. Laborers in eateries and sales outlet, amongst other professions that would not be reopening if public health was a concern, have no choice besides gambling their lives on the job or starving at home. That&rsquo;s because when ventures reopen and jobs become available, works lose their eligibility for unemployment insurance&#8211;even if it&rsquo;s not safe to go back to work.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you&#8217;re an employer and you offer to bring your employee back to work and the decision is not to, that&#8217;s a voluntary quit, &rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/495050-states-telling-workers-theyll-lose-unemployment-benefits-if-they-refuse\">Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said Friday<\/a> as she loosened coronavirus-related regulations in 77 of the state&rsquo;s 99 districts. &ldquo;Therefore, they would not be eligible for the unemployment money.&rdquo; Iowans have a graphic lesson to seeing how perilous it can be to go to work: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/health\/2020\/05\/05\/coronavirus-infects-thousands-iowa-meatpacking-plant-workers-covid-19-waterloo-perry\/5170796002\/\">nearly 1,700 laborers at four meatpacking floras<\/a> in the district are infected with coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"\/campaigns\/petition\/sign-the-petition-denounce-punitive-unemployment-policies-as-states-prematurely-re-open\">Campaign Action<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Ohio, state officials are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/local\/coronavirus-employers-asked-report-workers-who-opt-for-unemployment-over-job\/GPbpajBj450NslgCRf1lWI\/\">asking employers to report<\/a> people who won&rsquo;t go back to work so that they can be deprived which are beneficial. Some exceptions are available, but the widespread reality of COVID-1 9 in the state isn&rsquo;t enough. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a speciman by instance basis, but if you&rsquo;re just saying&#8217; I&rsquo;m afraid of the virus, &rsquo; that would not be sufficient. The analysis would need to be that your work environment, the conditions there, are such that you are at risk from a health and safety standard, &rdquo; the director of Ohio Department of Job and Family Business told reporters Monday. And workers&#8211;the people facing the risks&#8211;don&rsquo;t got to get realise that determination.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, an Odessa, Texas, waitress told The Texas Tribune that going back to work without social distancing &ldquo;scared me, so I left [&#8230;] Then I had to remember that if I do quit, I would have to lose my unemployment.&rdquo; Texas officials did subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2020\/04\/30\/texas-unemployment-qualifications-relaxed-coronavirus-pandemic\/\">expand aptitudes<\/a> for proletarians to continue getting unemployment, earmarking those who are themselves increased risk, live with high-risk beings, or who don&rsquo;t have access to child care to continue on unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/article\/news\/health\/coronavirus\/texas-sets-record-for-most-number-of-new-coronavirus-cases-over-a-two-consecutive-day-period\/269-fdf0df61-93c2-45b5-ae42-3cb7b1ab8767\">Texas reported a record gain<\/a> in COVID-1 9 cases.<\/p>\n<p>These Republicans are showing their ultimate, deadly contempt for workers whose work can&rsquo;t be done remotely, for workers who are living in fear of missing even one day&rsquo;s pay&#8211;for low-wage employees, in other words. It&rsquo;s the undercurrent of the push to reopen, from Donald Trump to Republican governors and government lawmakers to the astroturf opponents swinging guns outside statehouses. And it will kill people&#8211;just not, at least at first, parties Republicans care about.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Coronavirus\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/dailykosofficial\/~4\/tmIWYS6dSHc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"Coronavirus\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.dailykosmedia.com\/~r\/dailykosofficial\/~3\/tmIWYS6dSHc\/-Republican-rush-to-reopen-states-means-unemployment-cutoffs-for-terrified-workers\">feeds.dailykosmedia.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Republican governors move to reopen ventures in their positions before it&rsquo;s safe to do so, they&rsquo;re risking certain people&rsquo;s lives more than others. Laborers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}