Comments on: Two-Year Delay in Unemployment Trust Fund ‘Fix’ Would Save Hoosier Jobs http://indianachamberblogs.com/business-news/two-year-delay-in-unemployment-trust-fund-fix-would-save-hoosier-jobs/ The Business Blog of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:06:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sheila H. http://indianachamberblogs.com/business-news/two-year-delay-in-unemployment-trust-fund-fix-would-save-hoosier-jobs/#comment-2266 Sheila H. Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:30:19 +0000 http://indianachamberblogs.com/?p=2328#comment-2266 I live in the Plymouth area and I truly have been looking for work. I must have over 200 applications out and not one phone call!!!! I have 4 kids I raise on my own. I am ready to pack up and leave this state! I re-check on my applications and all I get is sorry...sorry ......sorry!!! GRRRRR!!! It is very frustrating. I guess what I wanted to say is, yes you do have some that use the system...but you do have some that would rather be working!!!!! I live in the Plymouth area and I truly have been looking for work. I must have over 200 applications out and not one phone call!!!! I have 4 kids I raise on my own. I am ready to pack up and leave this state! I re-check on my applications and all I get is sorry…sorry ……sorry!!! GRRRRR!!! It is very frustrating. I guess what I wanted to say is, yes you do have some that use the system…but you do have some that would rather be working!!!!!

]]> By: Teresa Strater http://indianachamberblogs.com/business-news/two-year-delay-in-unemployment-trust-fund-fix-would-save-hoosier-jobs/#comment-2223 Teresa Strater Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:12:01 +0000 http://indianachamberblogs.com/?p=2328#comment-2223 These changes will devastate my company. I own a staffing agency in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Tower Staffing, Inc. that has been in business since 1953. There is so much unemployment fraud going on out there with no accountability, follow-up or controls for the present system. We see it and live it everyday at Tower Staffing. I have yet to receive (1) phone call,or correspondence, in my tenure, from the Unemployment Office or it's affiliates, wanting to see if someone has been to my office to fill an application out, truly and sincerely looking for employment. We work closely with the Indiana Career Connect network recruiting the unemployed back to work with opportunities that we have available, and we can't even get a response back from them 80% - 90% of the time. These people don't want to work, when they can sit back everyday and collect financial benefits from the government with no accountability or check system in place from the DWD for the benefits. Why should the brunt of the financial responsibility be tossed back to the employer. Our market is so competitive already with operating expenses, lower profit margins, so on and so forth. Sincerely, Teresa Strater President/Owner Tower Staffing, Inc. These changes will devastate my company. I own a staffing agency in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Tower Staffing, Inc. that has been in business since 1953. There is so much unemployment fraud going on out there with no accountability, follow-up or controls for the present system. We see it and live it everyday at Tower Staffing. I have yet to receive (1) phone call,or correspondence, in my tenure, from the Unemployment Office or it’s affiliates, wanting to see if someone has been to my office to fill an application out, truly and sincerely looking for employment. We work closely with the Indiana Career Connect network recruiting the unemployed back to work with opportunities that we have available, and we can’t even get a response back from them 80% – 90% of the time. These people don’t want to work, when they can sit back everyday and collect financial benefits from the government with no accountability or check system in place from the DWD for the benefits. Why should the brunt of the financial responsibility be tossed back to the employer. Our market is so competitive already with operating expenses, lower profit margins, so on and so forth.

Sincerely,

Teresa Strater
President/Owner
Tower Staffing, Inc.

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