In the state of Rhode Island, work sharing is a well-established part of the unemployment insurance system.

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In a nod to Germany's Kurzarbeit scheme, one would use the unemployment insurance system to support shortened work hours.

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They said he also manipulated the unemployment-insurance tax system, using shell companies to transfer employees from one business to another in order to receive a lower rate.

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TERAs, he ensures that the new system, overall, would cost no more than today's unemployment insurance.

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Under the changes, a self-employed worker who contributes to the social security system in one EU country, and then moves to another member state that does not have unemployment insurance for the self-employed will be able to claim unemployment benefit from the country where the worker was last based before becoming unemployed.

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