Sep 6, 2016 | Blog, News & Press
Nebraska – Beginning October 1st, the Nebraska Department of Labor will give businesses across the state a new alternative to layoffs when economic times are tough. Created by the Legislature in 2014, the short-term compensation program will extend partial...
Aug 15, 2016 | Blog, News & Press
Last week the New Jersey Senate passed a bill that would provide unemployment benefits to striking workers. The bill is now awaiting action in the Assembly. Assembly Speaker Vinnie Prieto says he plans to post the bill for a vote in the near future because strikers...
Aug 15, 2016 | Blog, News & Press
Ohio – A joint Ohio House and Senate committee has started meeting in order to figure out a way to save Ohio’s endangered unemployment compensation system. The unemployment compensation fund could fail unless the state legislature reforms the program, which...
Aug 8, 2016 | Blog, News & Press
According to the state’s Unemployment Insurance Fund Forecast (released in May 2016), “The current financing structure leaves the Unemployment Insurance Fund unable to self-correct and achieve a positive fund balance sufficient to withstand an economic...
Jun 9, 2016 | Blog, News & Press
According to a press release published by the Nevada Attorney General’s office, a Las Vegas woman who helped an imprisoned man defraud the state’s unemployment benefits agency is now a felon herself. Why? Because she lied to the state to make it seem as though the...
