Ohio to workers: No benefits if you aren't willing to risk your lives

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Source: American Independent

By Emily Singer -May 5, 2020 4:54 PM

The state is encouraging employers to report workers who do not come back to reopened jobs out of fear of the coronavirus.

As Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine prepares to lift many stay-at-home orders and reopen his state for business, his administration is asking employers to report workers who refuse to return to their jobs over continued fears for their health.

The Office of Unemployment Insurance Operations section of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services website has posted a form that employers can fill out and submit to notify the department when a worker has quit or refused to work when a job was available "due to COVID-19."

The form link reads, "Report COVID-19 Employee Fraud."

Since in general employees are eligible for unemployment insurance benefits only if they've lost their jobs through no fault of their own, the state would be able to use the reported information to cut off payments.

Some congressional Republicans have suggested that people will choose not to work because of the benefits included in the coronavirus relief package Congress passed last month. Republican senators, including Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Tim Scott of South Carolina, had tried to make the benefits package less generous than proposed but ultimately failed.

Read more: https://americanindependent.com/ohio-coronavirus-report-workers-unemployment-benefits-fraud-mike-dewine-covid-19/

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DeWine is one of a handful of governors starting to lift social distancing measures.

DeWine urged those who can work from home to continue to do so, but is gradually allowing employers to reopen their doors. DeWine tweeted on Sunday that health care providers were allowed to reopen on May 1; manufacturing, construction, and "general office workplaces" could reopen on Monday; and retail businesses would be allowed to reopen on May 12.

The DeWine administration joins Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds in saying that residents who don't go back to work when their workplaces reopen will be ineligible for unemployment benefits. Meanwhile, though, many are afraid to go back. Infection and death rates connected with the coronavirus continue to rise across the country.

In a recent ABC News/Ipsos poll, 80% of respondents said they are worried about contracting the coronavirus.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.


Another right to life governor.....................

[yaesu]

1. tRump just said we are all warriors ready to give our lives up to open up the country, AKA

life is cheap in fascist USA.

[Marthe48]

2. I live in Ohio

tG, I am retired.

I was willing to support local businesses, but not if the employees are at risk of illness and death. What a horrible world when people are forced into this choice. Which is no choice at all.

Go to hell, dewine. I didn't like you before this crises, didn't like you during, don't like you now.

[Scalded Nun]

3. GOP Gov doing what GOP Gov's do

They are all evil, every fucking one of them.

[LisaL]

4. In the end, a Republican is a Republican.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

5. Safety concerns is one reason why I left my job.

I didn't even bother trying to file for unemployment benefits because I knew it would be denied.

Several concerns, not just their ridiculous interpretations of the Coronavirus.

The company also had a big explosion a couple weeks earlier because a safety device called an LEL (lower explosive limit) had been disabled. The guy in the solvent room had stepped out just seconds before it was engulfed in flames, and steel access doors were blown off that luckily didn't hit anybody.

Management threatened any employees who discussed the supposed "lie" about the bypassed LEL monitor (which was secretly fixed over a weekend), and the fire department were told it was just a minor incident... and that was the end of it.

[Aerator]

6. Dewine to cut programs

The Ohio Gov announced today immediate cuts of 210 million for Medicaid and 300 million to k-12 education.He said now is not the time to reach into the rainy day fund which has a surplus of 2.7 billion not counting the money they will be getting from the fed.

[blueinredohio]

11. He said he was going to cut Medicaid. Nothing like the middle o a pandemic.

How much can a month or so in ICU cost?

[roamer65]

7. DeWine lost his Senate seat to Sherrod Brown.

That says it all about DeWine.

[matt819]

8. That's what this has been about

Unemployment benefit costs. They don’t give a fuck about business or people or opening the economy. This is all about unemployment costs.

As many of you here have thought, I can’t help but wonder what happens when businesses fail and people start dying in ever larger numbers.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. Big business wants an insecure labor force.

Anything to make them bend to the will of their mini-tyrannies, like the prospect of starvation.

Job applicants who demonstrated some past freedom, with gaps in employment, are a red flag because they might get the notion to escape again.

[mr_lebowski]

10. I dunno about that ...

I think they want people back into the salt mines, badly ... and cutting off the unemployment when people won't go back to work is just the proverbial stick to make that happen most efficiently.

Not saying the state's like paying out a ton of UI bucks, they definitely don't. But I think it's mostly about people getting back to work i.e. making bucks for the 1%.

[BadGimp]

12. "Report COVID-19 Employee Fraud."

Dear God....