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AUSTIN, TX -- Workers who lose their jobs would have to clear a drug screening to qualify for unemployment compensation under a proposal approved by the Texas Legislature.
Under current law, employers take out insurance policies to help laid-off workers survive on weekly payments of $62 to $440. Those who are fired for cause, including failing an employer-sponsored drug test, do not qualify.
Saturday, May 25, 2013 AP
AUSTIN, TX -- Workers who lose their jobs would have to clear a drug screening to qualify for unemployment compensation under a proposal approved by the Texas Legislature.
Under current law, employers take out insurance policies to help laid-off workers survive on weekly payments of $62 to $440. Those who are fired for cause, including failing an employer-sponsored drug test, do not qualify.
What a great idea. Read more @ Drug tests for unemployment benefits approved by Texas Legislature | abc13.com and watch how quickly the left attacks it.
Saturday, May 25, 2013 AP
AUSTIN, TX -- Workers who lose their jobs would have to clear a drug screening to qualify for unemployment compensation under a proposal approved by the Texas Legislature.
Under current law, employers take out insurance policies to help laid-off workers survive on weekly payments of $62 to $440. Those who are fired for cause, including failing an employer-sponsored drug test, do not qualify.
What a great idea. Read more @ Drug tests for unemployment benefits approved by Texas Legislature | abc13.com and watch how quickly the left attacks it.
It's a pretty clear violation of privacy.
Texas is a state controlled by twisted fascists.
It's one of the worst places in the U.S. to live.
Saturday, May 25, 2013 AP
AUSTIN, TX -- Workers who lose their jobs would have to clear a drug screening to qualify for unemployment compensation under a proposal approved by the Texas Legislature.
Under current law, employers take out insurance policies to help laid-off workers survive on weekly payments of $62 to $440. Those who are fired for cause, including failing an employer-sponsored drug test, do not qualify.
What a great idea. Read more @ Drug tests for unemployment benefits approved by Texas Legislature | abc13.com and watch how quickly the left attacks it.
It's a pretty clear violation of privacy.
Texas is a state controlled by twisted fascists.
It's one of the worst places in the U.S. to live.
Who pays for the test?
How does this help anything considering that only those who fail a questionnaire will be required to take a drug test?
Saturday, May 25, 2013 AP
What a great idea. Read more @ Drug tests for unemployment benefits approved by Texas Legislature | abc13.com and watch how quickly the left attacks it.
It's a pretty clear violation of privacy.
Texas is a state controlled by twisted fascists.
It's one of the worst places in the U.S. to live.
WTF does personal privacy have to do with it?
Someone wants to apply for a government program and the government wishes to establish their eligibility for it. The person signs the application freely.
How is that too difficult to understand?
[I said ACLU types would try to overturn this, didn't I?]
Saturday, May 25, 2013 AP
AUSTIN, TX -- Workers who lose their jobs would have to clear a drug screening to qualify for unemployment compensation under a proposal approved by the Texas Legislature.
Under current law, employers take out insurance policies to help laid-off workers survive on weekly payments of $62 to $440. Those who are fired for cause, including failing an employer-sponsored drug test, do not qualify.
What a great idea. Read more @ Drug tests for unemployment benefits approved by Texas Legislature | abc13.com and watch how quickly the left attacks it.
It's a pretty clear violation of privacy.
Texas is a state controlled by twisted fascists.
It's one of the worst places in the U.S. to live.
It's a pretty clear violation of privacy.
Texas is a state controlled by twisted fascists.
It's one of the worst places in the U.S. to live.
WTF does personal privacy have to do with it?
Someone wants to apply for a government program and the government wishes to establish their eligibility for it. The person signs the application freely.
How is that too difficult to understand?
[I said ACLU types would try to overturn this, didn't I?]
It's none of the government's business what chemicals a person voluntarily puts in their body.
If a person worked, they have a right to their unemployment benefits no matter what. They already earned them.
Only idiots fail to pick the right answers on a questionnaire. And I'm betting the state is shouldering the cost of testing.
Drug testing is done as a condition for employment in many places random drug testing is done even after your employed but somehow drug testing for unemployment benefits or welfare benefits is unfair that's off the charts silly.
"The Legislative Budget Board, a nonpartisan state agency, estimates it will cost a half-million dollars to set up the program for drug testing workers seeking unemployment benefits. It will cost an additional $168,000 a year to run the program, according to the board's analysts.
The Workforce Commission told the board's analysts that the program could save the Unemployment Trust Fund $13.7 million over five years."
Read more here: Davis opposes drug tests for unemployed | State | News from Fort Worth, Dallas, Arlingto...
I'm suspicious of these promises to save tax dollars in the end. It assumes that the cost of benefits not paid out will be substantially more than the cost of testing, and we know how well assumptions can work out.
