Making it Harder to Access Unemployment Insurance

You might remember two years ago that we worked hard to pass a law to fix a problem in the unemployment insurance law. The problem was that workers who had unused vacation time on the books were penalized by having their unemployment check delayed week for week for each week of unused vacation time at the time of their layoff. That just wasn't fair. Luckily, the Legislature fixed that problem in 2010 and under current law, workers are no longer punished for having unused vacation time.

Unfortunately, the Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development Committee voted to roll the law back on vacation and unemployment so that workers will be penalized again.

The fight isn't over -- We can still defeat it in the Senate & House. It will go to the Senate first. Click here to send your Senator an email asking them to oppose this bill!