On 21-5-2009 18:09, Darren New wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>> Here it is a percentage of your last income. Makes sense in a way, 
>> because if you earn more you have a bigger house, a bigger car and you 
>> are probably the only income. So you need more to get you through the 
>> hard times. Not totally fair perhaps but it prevents a lot of 
>> secondary damage.
> 
> It's also the fact that you pay more taxes to cover it when you're 
> working while you're employed, at least in CA. If you don't pay the 
> taxes, you aren't covered. But if you do pay the taxes, you also aren't 
> always covered. There are situations where a sufficiently small business 
> winds up paying UI taxes and nobody there can collect.
> 
>>> Unions? We don't have any.
>> Interesting. A relic from the Thatcher days?
> 
> A sufficiently small company isn't going to have a union either. :-)

As I said, no real experience in the private sector, but as far as I 
know even people in small companies can be members of a union here. 
There are some big unions with divisions that span certain workers in 
all companies of a kind. Say all labpersonal organized as a group and 
all kitchen personel etc.
Apparently the situation is different in the UK and US.

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