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To: neolib who wrote (5593)	1/10/2017 5:52:26 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 364829

BTW, the main guy who has been with me for a decade plus, works for me in the winter, and then a food processing plant in the summer. I'm guessing he works something like 2400-2600 hours a year, yet gets unemployment benefits when either of us has down time (me do to weather). Do you think the fact that he gets these benefits allows you to hire him for less? To me it is wrong that labor which by its nature has variable hours should benefit from unemployment. I haven't given it a lot of thought and I don't have a strong opinion on the matter, but I think I might agree with you here.

To: neolib who wrote (5593)	1/10/2017 6:17:03 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 364829

To me it is wrong that labor which by its nature has variable hours should benefit from unemployment. Yet that is how the system works. When I was a kid, my dad was a construction laborer. He was a very hard-working person, when he worked. When they were building a school or a hospital nearby, he worked. In between jobs he collected unemployment--$35 per week. Typically they didn't build things in the winter, so his unemployment, while due primarily to having been laid off, was also a function of the weather, the variable hours you speak of. I never gave your point a moment's thought. I recall being very grateful for my daily Kraft mac and cheese, cereal, and bologna sandwich during the lay-offs. Considering the matter in light of your point, and having written policy and regulation for a living, it would be very hard for a program to differentiate. You need to draw hard lines. Sometimes the lines are closer to the streetlight than to the missing keys, but that's the best you can get.