While it's good that the Congress has taken upon itself to extend unemployment benefits, this does little to no good when American employment law is tilted in favor of the employer.It's time that the Congress work to pass a new employment law that recognizes that a contract is inherent in each employment relationship, and enforce the social obligations employers undertake when they choose to hire people to do work they benefit from.
Why is it that Congress is willing to spend trillions of dollars to remove risk from lives of people who are being paid to taken on uncertainty, yet have done nothing to provide certainty to the millions of Americans who work for wages? read full post
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