Are you looking for ways to hang on to staff, yet reduce costs? Those goals are not necessarily mutually exclusive if you choose to participate in your state’s workshare program. A workshare program allows your employees to collect some unemployment benefits but continue working part time. Here’s an article from the Center for Law and Social Policy that gives additional detail.
Seventeen states have such programs: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont and Washington. For a sample of a workshare law, see Section 1279.5 of California’s unemployment insurance code.
Each state’s program is a little different, but they have common attributes. We’ll use Oregon’s program as an example. Continue Reading Use Workshare Program to Cut Costs and Keep Workers
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