Committee passes bill changing Fla. unemployment benefits

[mfcorey1]

The House Finance and Tax committee passed a bill Thursday afternoon that makes significant changes to Florida's unemployment compensation system and reduces initial benefits from 26 weeks to 20.

The bill also deny benefits for employee "misconduct," force workers to accept job offers that pay at least 80 percent of their previous wage, or to accept any offer that paid as much as their unemployment benefit, once they've been out of work for more than 12 weeks

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/careers/ask-marcia/sfl-committee-passes-jobless-benefits-bill,0,2234048.story

[Better Believe It]

1. Who says the working class is under attack in the United States? Hogwash!

Yet another giant step forward in the ongoing campaign to "Win the Future"!

Yippeee!

[coalition_unwilling]

2. Never been to Florida. No plans to go. But is there any

reason for a regular working person to live and work there any longer?

On edit: seems like it's become a state for retirees and gazillionaires.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. It's a Libertarian state. Biggest kept secret.

Out in the burbs the townships resemble Alabama more than they do a purple state.

[defendandprotect]

3. Enforcing a downward spiral for Americans -- GOP's "third world America" .....

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. I wonder why nobody ever sees this as choking small business by

reducing the number of viable consumers?

[lpbk2713]

6. Only the wealthy and priveleged get benefits.

That's the way they want it to be.

[dkofos]

7. This will certainly give Floriduh an edge in that race to the bottom.