Jun 9, 2016 | Blog, News & Press
Indianapolis, Indiana – According to the Indiana Department of Workforce Development (DWD), A man pleaded guilty to a Class C felony charge after fraudulently collecting unemployment insurance benefits while working full-time. This was discovered when a DWD...
Jun 7, 2016 | Blog, News & Press
Excerpt Taken from the New Jersey Law Journal – A federal judge in Newark has denied the state’s motion to dismiss a suit challenging New Jersey’s classification of certain commercial truck drivers as employees, rather than independent contractors....
Jun 7, 2016 | Blog, News & Press
According to a recent report, Military Spouses are unemployed at a rate of 18 percent and underemployed (where people hold a job below their level of training), at a rate of 35 to 40 percent. The study concluded that the economic effect to the U.S. economy is anywhere...
Jun 7, 2016 | Blog, News & Press
Ohio – Proposed Bill H.B. 394 has a provision to reduce the maximum timeframe for claiming unemployment benefits from 26 weeks to a window of 12-20 weeks and requires someone to have earned wages in at least three of the four calendar quarters in order to be...
Jun 6, 2016 | Blog, News & Press
Des Moines, Iowa — An employee of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) was fired for not showing up for work for almost a month. It turns out that the employee had been in jail on criminal charges unrelated to her job, charges that were later dismissed....
