{"id":928,"date":"2020-06-05T00:30:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T00:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=928"},"modified":"2020-06-05T00:30:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T00:30:33","slug":"kurzarbeit-and-workshare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=928","title":{"rendered":"Kurzarbeit and Workshare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we have been repeatedly reminded, Germany and Austria amongst others have a scheme to supplement employee income during the pandemic without requiring that everyone be laid off, apply for unemployment and receive a supplemented payment when approved.\u00a0 For example, see <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/how-germany-saved-its-workforce-from-unemployment-while-spending-less-per-person-than-the-u-s#960153\">How Germany Saved Its Workforce From Unemployment While Spending Less Per Person Than the U.S. \u2014 ProPublica<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>What I didn&#8217;t know is that many states in the US have a similar program.\u00a0 In fact, WA has a workshare program called <a href=\"https:\/\/esd.wa.gov\/SharedWork\">SharedWork<\/a> (!) that is almost identical.\u00a0 Furthermore, the CARES Act passed by the Federal government that set up the idiotic unemployment compensation scheme for the duration of the pandemic <em>also<\/em> completely funds any state-governed workshare scheme, so WA would be off the hook for financing the increased demand for the program.<\/p>\n<p>The ProPublica article referenced above does a good job comparing the Kurzarbeit and unemployment approach.\u00a0 What I don&#8217;t understand is: why didn&#8217;t WA advertise the SharedWork program to all WA businesses, instead of retrofitting its barely-functioning unemployment system?\u00a0 Why am I just finding out about this now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we have been repeatedly reminded, Germany and Austria amongst others have a scheme to supplement employee income during the pandemic without requiring that everyone be laid off, apply for unemployment and receive a supplemented payment when approved.\u00a0 For example, see How Germany Saved Its Workforce From Unemployment While Spending Less Per Person Than the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}