Here is the North Carolina requirements (prior pandemic unemployment)... To receive unemployment benefits, you must make contact with three different employers each week and keep a record of your work search. Due to COVID-19, you may temporarily satisfy up to two of the three employer contacts by participating in reemployment activities (ex. workshops, self-assessments, career fairs) offered by your local NCWorks Career Center and/or their partner agencies. https://des.nc.gov/apply-unemployment/your-work-search-responsibilities What can I do to fulfill my work search requirements each week? Contact employers who have a position matching your qualifications, knowledge, abilities or skills. Employer contact must be for the purpose of obtaining employment. Participate in approved and verified reemployment activities. May count for no more than two of the three required contacts each week. What are acceptable methods of contacting employers? Submitting an application, resume, letter of interest, etc., through the employer or an employment website, such as NCWorks. Having a telephone conversation with an employer. Note: Leaving a message or voicemail is not sufficient. Attending a meeting with the employer. May include contact at job fairs or similar events or video interviews. Registering with NCWorks.gov. Can only be used as a contact for the week registration was completed. Responding to a blind job advertisement (an online or newspaper ad that does not give the company name). A copy of a blind advertisement may substitute for employer name, name of contact and job title. You must keep a copy of the advertisement for your records. What kinds of reemployment activities may count as work search contacts? Skill Set Courses (Provided by NCWorks Career Centers and/or Partner Agencies) Workshops (ex. Resume Preparation, Interviewing, Social Media Job Searches, Branding) Soft Skills Training (Professional or Social Etiquette) Industry/Occupational Specific Training (ex. CPR) Alison Online Training GCFLearnFree.org Classes English as a Second Language (ESL) Classes Online Career Tools (Provided by NCWorks Career Centers and/or Partner Agencies) Employment Websites (ex. Indeed) NCCareers.org features, such as Reality Check, Interest Profiler, Career Cluster Guide Telephone Reemployment Assistance with NCWorks Career Centers and/or Partner Agencies Career Counseling (ex. Job Seeking Tips, Interviewing Basics) Career Explorer (NCWorks Interest and Skills Assessment) Job Skills/Personal Skills/Workplace Skills (Self-Assessments) Work Interests/Work Values (Self-Paced Inventories in NCWorks) Career Counseling (ex. Job Seeking Tips, Interviewing Basic) Job Clubs and/or Networking Groups (NCWorks/Partner/Community-Recognized) Resume Preparation, Review and/or Assistance Career Fair (Virtual and/or In-Person) Job Search/Virtual Recruiter Job Referrals If you have any questions regarding a specific reemployment activity not listed, please contact your local NCWorks Career Center. Keeping a Record of Your Work Search You are required to keep a detailed record of your work search activities each week. You will receive a blank Work Search Record form that you can use to document your work search activities. For audit purposes, you must retain these records for five years. Download a blank Work Search Record. Your work search record must include: Date of Employer Contact or Reemployment Activity. Company Contacted or Reemployment Activity Attended. Contact Method. Name of Contact (if applicable) and the Website, Email Address, Fax Number, Telephone Number or Physical Address for the contact or activity. (If you are using an employment website, provide the name of the employer you are applying for a position with AND the name of the employment website.) Position you are seeking. Results. Below is an example of a valid work search record.
How many people are on disability but not disabled? MILLIONS. The system is a failure.. Lazy Leftards gotta Leftard.
NC Republicans pitch $1,500 back-to-work bonuses for unemployed https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/nc...back-to-work-bonuses-for-unemployed/19687861/ The state would dip into federal unemployment supplements to pay people on unemployment a $1,500 bonus to take a job under legislation released Thursday at the statehouse. The proposal would also cut off benefits for people who refuse jobs or skip job interviews, and it would move the state back to pre-pandemic requirements for looking for a job while receiving weekly benefits. The plan is preliminary and, among other things, would require federal approval to use federal supplements to pay the bonuses. The bonuses would be tiered under the new House Bill 128: $1,500 for people who move off the unemployment rolls in the first wave and $800 for people in the second. Right now, the first wave deadline would arrive June 1 and the second July 1, but bill sponsors said Thursday those dates may not be realistic and likely will change. Among the moving targets: Whether the federal government will even approve the strategy and how long approval might take. This bill is in response to businesses complaining they can't find enough employees and blaming federal pandemic stimulus programs that have boosted unemployment benefits. The average benefit in North Carolina, as of earlier this month, was $495 a week before taxes, according to the state Division of Employment Security. That includes various federal supplements, including the $300-a-week supplement many unemployed people receive. That average weekly benefit works out to about $12.38 an hour for a 40-hour-a-week job. Without federal supplements, regular unemployment benefits in North Carolina typically total half the person's salary from their previous job, with a cap at $350 a week. Under House Bill 128, people on unemployment would lose their benefits if they refuse a job that pays at least 120 percent of their state benefit, without the federal supplements. They'd also have to make three job contacts a week, respond to interview requests within 48 hours and show up for their interviews. If they fail to respond to interview requests or show up for an interview three times, they'd lose benefits under the bill, which would have DES track these things with the help of a private contractor. Republicans rolled the legislation out Thursday in the Senate Commerce committee. Initial votes may come next week, though bill details may change between now and then. Unemployment issues often divide the state legislature along party lines, but Democrats seeing the measure for the first time Thursday seemed intrigued. "An innovative, kind of different solution that we're able to have some conversations around," said Sen. Kirk DeViere, D-Cumberland. DeViere said that, like many of his Republican colleagues, he hears complaints "every day" from employers who say they can't find enough employees. Sen. Chuck Edwards, R-Henderson, who presented the bill Thursday, called the matter "critical to North Carolina's economy." People who can't find work wouldn't lose their federal supplements, as Republicans have proposed in some states, Edwards said. But some of the federal supplement money would be used to pay bonuses. "Folks who are not able to return to work will continue to receive the supplements," he said.
More and more states are restoring the job search requirement (N.C. has) and eliminating the federal unemployment booster (under consideration in N.C.). There is no reason non-disabled adults cannot get a job in the U.S. currently, it's time to stop paying people to sit at home. Burr, Tillis tell Cooper to end federal jobless subsidies in NC https://www.wral.com/burr-tillis-tell-cooper-to-end-federal-jobless-subsidies-in-nc/19697197/ With employers struggling to fill positions as post-pandemic restrictions end, Republican U.S. Sens. Richard Burr and Thom Tillis have called on Gov. Roy Cooper to cut off federal unemployment subsidies in North Carolina to encourage people to get back into the workforce. Meanwhile, North Carolina state senators advanced a proposal Wednesday giving $1,500 bonuses to unemployment benefit recipients who return to work this summer. "The employment shortage caused by exorbitant federal unemployment benefits is a real and serious threat to North Carolina’s recovery," Burr and Tillis said in a joint statement. "Employers, particularly in hard-hit industries like tourism, service, and hospitality, are finding they can’t compete with excessive federal benefits. Time is running out for industries that rely on the summer season for a large portion of their business." The average unemployment benefit in North Carolina, as of earlier this month, was $495 a week before taxes, according to the state Division of Employment Security. That includes various federal supplements, including the $300-a-week supplement many unemployed people receive. That average weekly benefit works out to about $12.38 an hour for a 40-hour-a-week job. The federal supplements are set to end in September, but 23 Republican-led states have already canceled them, citing a shortage of people looking for jobs as businesses reopen and expand as the pandemic eases. Tillis and Burr want North Carolina to join that list. "Governor Cooper needs to acknowledge the existence of a problem and take action to fix it," they said in their statement. "We won’t have truly recovered from this pandemic ... until North Carolina’s economy and workers are back in full force." There was no immediate response from Cooper's office. Without federal supplements, regular unemployment benefits in North Carolina typically total half the person's salary from their previous job, with a cap at $350 a week. People who have been out of work for months would likely have exhausted their state benefits by now. Cooper did sign an executive order last week requiring people to demonstrate that they're looking for work to remain eligible for weekly unemployment checks. The work-search mandate was suspended last year and partially reinstituted in March. The governor also directed the state Commerce Department to find ways the state could create an incentives programs using federal funds. Also Wednesday, the Senate Commerce committee gave bipartisan support to a bill that would offer bonuses to people returning to work, but only if federal labor officials allow the state to use money coming from Washington, D.C., that's made unemployment benefits more generous during the COVID-19 pandemic. The bill also would place additional requirements upon current beneficiaries to respond to job interview requests, or they could ultimately see benefits cut off. “It’s a good first step to helping us address the workforce shortages that we have in North Carolina right now,” Sen. Chuck Edwards, R-Henderson, told the committee. The additional $300-a-week benefit provided by Washington is proving to be a disincentive to some displaced workers, according to bill supporters. Several senators have been told by local employers that they can’t find enough people to hire, even while increasing wages. “This crisis is widespread; it’s impacting all industries, all sizes all across North Carolina,” said Nicole Hendren with Catapult, a North Carolina-based employer consultant on personnel and other issues. “The federal supplement is creating an incentive to not work. Elimination or repurposing is key.”
No more excuses. Get your lazy asses back to work. Fear of coronavirus will no longer be acceptable reason for Texans on unemployment to turn down job offers The state's unemployment agency is ending that exemption June 26, when out-of-work Texans will also stop receiving an extra $300 in federal jobless benefits. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/06/09/texans-unemployment-coronavirus-work-offers/
there's huge vaccine hesitancy and lack of COVID employee safeguards in Texan workplaces imposed by the "reopen at all costs" state government. Why would you support this GWB? It goes against everything you stand for.