I have been told that State Representative Bruce Borders is or has offered up a bill in the Indiana Legislator to disqualify construction workers from receiving unemployment compensation by renaming their profession as seasonal work; seasonal workers do not qualify for unemployment.

I have not contacted him yet but I am in the process of doing so. It seems to me that the benefits are employer based and not State based. The question is how will such a ruling approval affect the profession? Second will the employers still be held liable and be required to continue payment into unemployment compensation when their employees do not qualify for the benefit?

John R. Stanczak