> what does it mean for someone to be unemployed in the first place if there is just less work to go around?
As we've seen with the pandemic, unemployment can mean withdrawal of healthcare and eviction.
Really the question here is risk. Who takes the risk that employees can get sick? Who takes the risk that levels of work coming in can vary?
Should it be the individual employees, who generally have a couple month's income saved or less, or should it $50 billion market cap company? Which is better able to absorb risk? Or should the risk instead be handled by the state or federal government?
As we've seen with the pandemic, unemployment can mean withdrawal of healthcare and eviction.
Really the question here is risk. Who takes the risk that employees can get sick? Who takes the risk that levels of work coming in can vary?
Should it be the individual employees, who generally have a couple month's income saved or less, or should it $50 billion market cap company? Which is better able to absorb risk? Or should the risk instead be handled by the state or federal government?