Five states expand unemployment benefits for individuals who quit or were fired for refusing to ge

[libertybele]

 Five states expand unemployment benefits  for individuals who quit or were fired for refusing to get vaccinated


Five states have moved to expand unemployment benefits for individuals who have lost their jobs as a result of their decision not to get a COVID-19 vaccination.

Tennessee, Florida, Iowa, Arkansas, and Kansas have passed legislation to extend unemployment benefits to individuals who choose not to submit to vaccine mandates by their employer.

The decision to expand unemployment benefits by several states comes because of increasing pressures from the Biden administration requiring employers to mandate employee vaccination. The Biden administration continues to advocate for its mandate even though the president admitted Monday that "there is no federal solution" to ending the coronavirus pandemic as he called on state governments to do more to fight the Omicron variant during a briefing with the National Governors Association.

Florida expanded unemployment benefits to the unvaccinated as part of the bill that banned vaccine mandates in the state.

"Nobody should lose their job due to heavy-handed COVID mandates, and we had a responsibility to protect the livelihoods of the people of Florida," Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said in a statement, according to Business Insider. .............

https://www.theblaze.com/news/five-states-expand-unemployment-benefits-for-individuals-who-quit-or-were-fired-for-refusing-to-get-vaccinated

[Kamaji]

The cost of the unemployment should be levied against the ex-employer.