{"id":25294,"date":"2019-03-01T08:45:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T14:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=25294"},"modified":"2019-03-07T08:46:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T14:46:35","slug":"proposal-to-give-unemployment-benefits-to-family-caregivers-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=25294","title":{"rendered":"Proposal to give unemployment benefits to family caregivers fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that would expand eligibility for unemployment benefits failed March 1.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20130\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20130\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20130\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenCrawford_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sencrawford_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Sue Crawford&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Sue Crawford&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenCrawford_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20130\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenCrawford_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Sue Crawford\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenCrawford_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenCrawford_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Sue Crawford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A person who voluntarily leaves employment with \u201cgood cause\u201d is eligible for unemployment benefits under employment security law. LB306, introduced by Bellevue Sen. Sue Crawford, would have added leaving employment to care for a family member with a serious health condition to the existing list of good cause reasons.<\/p>\n<p>An employee would have been required to make all reasonable efforts to preserve his or her employment before voluntarily leaving.<\/p>\n<p>The bill failed on a 20-15 vote. Twenty-five votes were needed.<\/p>\n<p>Crawford filed a motion to reconsider the vote, which is pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that would expand eligibility for unemployment benefits failed March 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-25294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-and-labor","tag-sen-sue-crawford"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25295,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25294\/revisions\/25295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}