Changing Workforce / Changing Economy
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Chapter 1 - Low-wage Worker Access
Chapter 2 - Access for Women and Working Families
- Provide UI Benefits for Workers Who Must Leave Jobs Due to Family Hardship
- Ensure that Domestic Violence Survivors Access Benefits
- Supply UI Benefits to Workers Who Must Leave Their Jobs to Move with Their Spouse or Partner
- Add a Children’s Allowance
- Provide Paid Family or Temporary Disability Leave
Chapter 3 - Eligibility for Nonstandard Workers
- Establish UI Parity for Part-time Workers
- Use the Broad “ABC”Test to Define Employer-Employee Relationships
- Watch Out For: Eligibility Rules that Discriminate against Workers Employed by the Temporary Help Industry
Chapter 4 - Build Income Security
- Index Weekly Benefit Amounts
- Provide Low-Wage Workers with a Greater Share of Former Wages
- Watch Out For: Changes to the Duration of UI Benefits
- Expand Partial Unemployment Benefits
- Eliminate Waiting Weeks for Unemployment Insurance
- Adopt Better Extended Benefits Triggers
Chapter 5 - Maximize Training Opportunities
- Agency-approved Training: Integrating Training and UI Programs to Better Assist Dislocated Workers
- Ensure Jobless Workers Have Opportunity for Appropriate Training
- Provide State-funded Retraining for Workers
- Fund State Benefit Extensions for Workers in Training
Chapter 6 - Financing for Long-term Solvency
- Raise and Index Taxable Wage Bases: Stronger Financing for UI
- Adopt a Wide Range of UI Tax Rates
- Build Trust Funds in Advance to Prepare for Benefit Costs Incurred During a Recession
- Stop Employer Tax Evasion with Laws against “SUTA Dumping”
- Increase Tools to Collect UI Taxes Owed from Employers Who Illegally Call Their Workers “Independent Contractors”
