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Toledo City Council Members Lash Out at Ohio House Bill 394
Sojourner’s
Truth Staff
Toledo City
Council Members Larry Sykes, Yvonne Harper and Cecelia
Adams, Ph.D, announced this week that they will ask their
colleagues on council to join them in a resolution
condemning the proposed Ohio House Bill 394 which offers
changes to unemployment benefits.
“It is
ridiculous,” said Sykes of the Republican proposal to reduce
unemployment compensation eligibility from the current 26
weeks t 12 weeks. Other major changes offered in the bill
will require workers to wait longer after applying for
benefits and require them to have worked in at least three
of four calendar quarters to be eligible. House Bill 394
would also freeze benefits depending on unemployment rates.
“At a time
like this, during Christmastime, the holiday season, I think
it is ungodly,” said Sykes. “I question some of our elected
officials in Columbus.”
House Bill 394 was proposed by Republican
Representative Barbara Sears in order to address the
insolvency of the Ohio Unemployment Compensation System and
introduced to the General Assembly on November 9, 2015. The
proposal has been roundly derided by House Democrats |
