Oregon governor signs a bill to grant unemployment to amazing workers
Democratic Governor Origon Democratic Tina Cotik on Tuesday in a draft law provides benefits for unemployment Amazing workersAfter the neighboring Washington State, to adopt measures driven by the last skin before Boeing factory workersand Hospital nurses and Teachers In the northwest of the Pacific Ocean.
Orengon scale It makes it the first country to offer to capture public employees – who are not allowed to be beaten in most states, not to mention obtaining advantages for that. The amazing workers make qualified to collect unemployment after two weeks, with advantages in 10 weeks.
Only three other states – New York, New Jersey and recently Washington State – offer amazing workers ’unemployment benefits. Washington billAnd that passed in April, pushing the amazing private sector workers for up to six weeks, starting at least two weeks on the line.
On Monday, Democratic State Governor Nid Lamont achieved a veto against a bill that would provide financial assistance to amazing workers, after considering a similar veto in the past year.
The last section of the Organ Bill has been forced. The Senate approved the state for the first time in March, then the State Council approved earlier this month. However, the majority of the Senate members did not agree with the amendments added by the House of Representatives, which sent the procedure to the Conference Committee to resolve the differences between the two projects. She eventually obtained final approval after a compromise on the maximum benefits for 10 weeks.
The draft law has sparked a discussion between legislators as well as voters, with more than 1,000 letters of written certificates.
Supporters said that it will lead to the settlement of the stadium between workers and wealthy companies that can wait for the strike funds in the federation to pressure employees in light of financial distress to accept deals.
The opponents said it could stimulate strikes and harm employers, especially public employers such as educational areas. Private employers in the Inspection Fund pay the state’s unemployment to provide the state through the salary statements tax, but many public employers do not, which means that they will have to compensate the fund for any paid payments for their workers.
In response to those concerns, the draft law requires educational areas to deduct the benefits that an employee receives from their future wages.
Some have argued that he would not cost public employers more than they have already done in the budget for salaries, because workers do not receive their salaries when the strike. Also, those who receive unemployment benefits get 65 % of their weekly salaries, and the amounts of advantages are determined, according to the documents provided to legislators by Ministry of Labor officials.
Oregon has seen two major strikes in recent years: Thousands of nurses and dozens of doctors In the eight proficient in Oregon, it was a six -week striker this year, while Portland Public Schools Teachers closed schools for more than three weeks in the largest area in the state.
