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...
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....
