Talk about a policy idea that is the biggest waste of time you could ever think of. The job search requirement has always been meaningless.

You could mandate 3 in a week or 20 in a week, its just as simple to get around it. Apply for a job, and congrats youve met the requirement. These days you could apply to 20 different jobs in about 15 minutes using Indeed or whatever, regardless of if youre even remotely qualified for them. You dont have to show up to the interview (if you get one), and therefore never get offered a job, which means you never turned down a job offer, so you can keep collecting without any issue. No one from the state ever follows up, other than to see if you were offered work, because all that matters is that by next week you applied to how ever many other jobs. Rinse and repeat.

The only way to not collect the unemployment is if you are offered a job and turn it down, if you dont apply to enough jobs, or if you run out of money to collect. Clearly people out of work are applying to more than enough jobs to meet the requirements. And even if they werent, they still will drain what little benefits they have very quickly regardless

This is all just a bunch of nonsense

Whew that’ll help!

I love all the pro-citizen policies this administration releases. Either earn money for the elite, or get fucked. That's a winning plan!

I live in Oregon, filing for unemployment online when you select the drop down for how you applied thru don't even have the option for "online". Phone, in-person, verbal...so every week people have to select other.

It took 9 weeks to get my check the last time I was laid off in the last few years. Nothing interesting or special about my case. They just took 9 weeks to review and approve it. They noted this was normal. Since most people can't wait 9 weeks without a check, they start working for lyft and shit.

Oregon employment department got trashed, rightfully so, during the pandemic, they took 6 months or more to pay people. Their website is still poorly designed and barely functional for something you want to be intuitive to the entire adult workforce. They still can't pick up their phone in less than 8 hours. I wrote my state reps emails, none of them even responded. Funny how the tables would turn if their paycheck stopped for 9 weeks.

Motherfuckers.

This sounds like a job for AI!

applying for or collecting jobless aid to complete at least five unique work searches per week. Currently, many U.S. states require two to three qualifying work searches per week, while only four states require five. Some states require only one work search activity to qualify for unemployment benefits.

Something, something, small government.

• five job searches
• certify these searches in person at local branch
• no appointments, office opens at 11am and closes at 3pm
• office also closes for lunch
• you have to do a bunch of captchas too
• the captchas will block 15% of all requests
• no black, gay, or trans ppl allowed

Get this fuck out of office already