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Employment guarantees may include benefits (FMLA/Healthcare), which you definitely will not have with unemployment. The American system of tying healthcare to e
by Afforess 7y ago
Employment guarantees may include benefits (FMLA/Healthcare), which you definitely will not have with unemployment. The American system of tying healthcare to employment is showing it's huge weakness right now - when Americans need healthcare the most, they lose it.
"Rehiring" can also be slow because it forces employers HR departments to screen candidates all over again. If employees stay on the payroll, they can all report back to work once the crisis has passed. Instead, businesses that survive have to spend their first weeks "hiring" back employees if they can, instead of making profits. This delay will hurt the recovery further.
- tathougies 7y agoYes, I agree with healthcare. FMLA doesn't make sense. If you're unemployed, you don't need to ask for time off. Plus, this is paid leave. > "Rehiring" can also be slow because it forces employers HR departments to screen candidates all over again. No it doesn't. Just call your old employees and give them a job back.
- TheCowboy 7y agoThe POV that there will be some idealistic point in the future where companies call all of their employees back is absurd. There might be some chance of this happening, but it's not large. And the times we're wrong then we're very wrong. This isn't going to be unpaused. The economy will be spun back up gradually for everyone's safety. People will likely still be getting sick. Some at-risk people may not be able to safely re-enter the workforce for a long time.
- threatofrain 7y agoWhat’s the rationale for hiring when economic circumstances don’t locally justify it? Is it charity? You want businesses to engage in idiosyncratic, ad hoc charity as part of the national strategy? Then just tax them and make it Not idiosyncratic or whimsical.