| What would be your threshold in this case? Would you take any job even if it pays less and has worse conditions then the one your were laid off from? Would you take any job no matter what? Even it it has terrible work conditions and doesn't even pay as much as your employment insurance? Would you take any job that pays more then your current unemployment even if it doesn't interest you in the slightest or seems to have bad conditions? Would you take any job that seems a good fit for you long term, that interests you, seem to offer conditions you find reasonable, and pays better than your current unemployment? Would you take the opportunity to train yourself in something new so that you can find work in new domains that might pay better and have less chance of being laid off again in the future? Which of these would you consider "cheating" the unemployment insurance and which would you say is "in the spirit" of what it's suppose to afford you as a person recently laid off? Also, on the topic of how long, the benefits in most state end after around 26 weeks, so there is a hard cut off that was chosen for some reason. I guess you could argue to make it shorter or longer, but I think that needs answering my previous question about what is "in spirit" and what isn't so we can set the right length of time given that. |