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> it's not obvious to me how to fix it - if someone's working for six different employers, what responsibilities do each have? Single payer health care would h
by dalke 11y ago
> it's not obvious to me how to fix it - if someone's working for six different employers, what responsibilities do each have?
Single payer health care would handle the biggest issue, because it would make the employer not also be in charge of paying for your health care.
Get rid of 401(k) and push it back into Social Security, to disassociate the company from retirement savings.
Then someone with 5 jobs @ 8 hours/week will have roughly the same benefits as someone with 1 job @ 40 hours/week. The major exception will be vacation time and sick leave. I have no good sense of the problems there, much less solutions.
> How do we make sure someone fired from five of their six jobs receives unemployment, without giving it to someone in full-time employment who gets fired from their minor side gig?
Is that really an issue? How does that happen now?
I presume the government tracks the employment tax payments, which are paid monthly or semi-weekly. These are linked to your SSN, which you used to file for unemployment. So it shouldn't be that hard to identify frauds.
- lmm 11y ago> Is that really an issue? How does that happen now? Well currently you don't get unemployment benefit if you're in any kind of employment, AIUI, so my hypothetical "person with six jobs who's fired from five of them" would not be eligible (or would have to quit their remaining job if they couldn't find others quickly enough).
- dalke 11y agoI see. I misunderstood. I thought you meant someone would come to the unemployment office with a notice of being laid off, and declare being unemployed, despite having other jobs. I have no experience with filing for unemployment. I reviewed the New York "Unemployment Insurance A Claimant Handbook" at http://www.labor.state.ny.us/formsdocs/ui/TC318.3e.pdf http://www.labor.state.ny.us/formsdocs/ui/TC318.3e.pdf . It confirms your understanding; even working for a fraction of an hour counts as "work", so someone with a job teaching 3 hours a week is employed and cannot file for unemployment benefits.