Missouri employers can recall employees who have been laid off during the pandemic. Refusing to return to the job, ends unemployment benefits immediately. The notion that lazy people are choosing to live on too-generous unemployment benefits and keeping business owners from filling open positions, is false. Demand for workers has increased, while qualified workers are more scarce. In the post-pandemic economy, employers will have to offer competitive wages and benefits to attract and keep their workforce.
A second intent of the American Rescue Plan in Missouri as in other states is the injection of money into the local economy; dollars that will help small businesses recover from the 2020 recession. Removal of this funding will slow the recovery. Capriciously cancelling federal unemployment benefits prematurely as our Governor has done is purely economic sabotage.
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