As some governors prepare to reopen their states' economies, millions of employees will have to decide between returning to work and risking their safety — or staying home and losing state and federal benefits.
Kersha Cartwright, a spokeswoman for the Georgia Department of Labor, said the office"is encouraging employees to work with their employers on a safe return-to-work plan."Kersha Cartwright, a spokeswoman for the Georgia Department of Labor, said the office"is encouraging employees to work with their employers on a safe return-to-work plan."There's a call Laura Jean Truman is dreading and she's convinced it's just a matter of time before it comes.
As of this week, Kemp is allowing restaurants to open for dine-in service. Theaters have also been green-lighted for operation, and on Wednesday,, one of the largest shopping mall operators in the country, announced they'll be throwing open their doors on May 1. Her $365 weekly check from unemployment and the additional $600 boost from the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program — minus taxes — are safe. That's because the owner of Manuel's Tavern has decided not to reopen just yet."He doesn't want to open a restaurant for dining until the science shows that it's safe," Truman recounted.
"However, voluntarily deciding to quit your job out of a general concern about exposure to COVID-19 does not make you eligible for [Pandemic Unemployment Assistance]," according to the site. "First, they have to raise that with their manager and then they have to have the documents to show the workplace is unsafe and nobody has addressed their concern," Evermore said.Since the outbreak of the coronavirus the state has processed nearly 1.1 million jobless claims. That's more than all of the claims in the past three years combined, superseding records set during the Great Recession, according to the Labor Department. And it is unclear how much of the $2.
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