...That unemployment pays such a small percentage of an applicant's pay from their most recent former employer defeats the purpose of it. Though it provides some relief, it is seldom enough to pay significant bills like rent or mortgage, etc. Imagine working hard for years or for whatever length of time that one would have worked before being terminated from a job due to no fault of one's own or for a legitimate yet excusable reason and losing everything that you've worked for due to a few missed paychecks and/or insufficient unemployment "relief"...
Legitimate yet excusable reasons that employees might be terminated from a job are for being habitually late and/or missing work due to transportation issues or physical and/or mental illnesses like sleep disorders, major depression, and/or anemia, or an employee finally losing their temper after being relentlessly bullied.
This should not be. An approved unemployment applicant should be privy to the full amount of their weekly or bi-weekly pay from their most recent job and for the entire length of time that they are unemployed. This, for one, would discourage employment terminations where often the cause could be addressed via Work Behavior Modification Programs and/or medical treatment. It would additionally discourage employment blacklisting when employees are terminated, as most if not all employers do not want to pay any amount to a former employee.
This would additionally secure payment of critical and other bills of the subject individual during the period of unemployment and may, in some instances, require the subject former employee to participate in a DOL-based Work Behavior Modification program and/or medical treatment, interventions that employers should in fact take before terminating employees that could save them loads of money that they might otherwise pay in unemployment benefits and hiring new employees...
The ultimate goal here would be for former employers to pay less unemployment benefits by paying more for significantly shorter periods of time to keep their between-jobs former employees financially secured until they have acquired new jobs.
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