Written by: Tara Morris | The NeoLiberal
Don’t remove incentives to get people to go back to work. Compete With Incentives so that people Want to go back!
Benefits are doing more harm than good that’s according to Montana Governor who has pulled his state out of the Unemployment Benefits program citing that their state’s businesses can’t find workers. The Governor and his advisors assume that this is because we are paying people to not work See the Governor on Fox
But if truth be told, Employers must pay their workers better wages so that they have real incentive to go back to work. Moreover, COVID-19 has created a new culture that no one wants to go back to work in a physical place or space. We have heard of several cases where even executives in NY are concocting strategic ways to avoid having to go back to work. In fact, several businesses have called their employees back to work and many have supplied fake sick notices to their employees in an effort to not go back to work.
No one wants to go back to earning minimum wage and no one wants to work the same way since work and play are now remote or tectonic. States and Employers have misplaced blame. People are not going back because they now have incentives to create more businesses or to do 1099 work such as #Uber and #Amazon etc. so the issue is not the UE benefits. It’s the incentive to work. Don’t remove incentives to get people to go back to work. Add an incentive so that people go back!
Further, the Governor said recently on Fox News that working is a dignified and self-sufficient thing to do so why wouldn’t people want to go back to work. But I must rebut that point. Did you know what worker satisfaction was among workers in the US especially among most working Americans who work minimum or working-class wage? It was below 50 percent. Further, if working is a dignified enterprise, then why would employers not want to pay a dignified wage? The UE benefits places pressure on employers to pay better salaries and that is the key.
So please let us not get our blame and strategies mixed up. What is happening here is that employers are unwilling to pay any more than what they want to pay, minimum and substandard wages but still expect people to come back to work who are more making a bit more through needed benefits.
The blog was written by Tara Morris senior Reporter at The NeoLiberal and edited by Renaldo Mckenzie, Author of Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance. The book is available at Barnes and Noble And Amazon
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