State to pay millions in denied jobless benefits
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia will pay more than $8 million in unemployment benefits to more than 4,000 seasonally jobless workers who were denied payments last year by the commissioner of labor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned.
Commissioner Mark Butler told the AJC Thursday the back payments are necessary after legislation to support his policy failed in the final hours of 2013 General Assembly, a complication that prompted a multi-million dollar threat from the U.S. Department of Labor.
The issue affects privately-employed public school and university workers such as bus drivers and cooks. Butler contends they should not be eligible for unemployment benefits during summer or holiday breaks, since teachers and other school system employees are not.
Not surprisingly, his new policy did not go over well with the affected workers, who are mostly low-wage.
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