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With the national unemployment rate remaining below 5 percent, many wonder if pay rates will increase as businesses begin competing for available skilled workers. According to Marcia Miceli, Professor of Management at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of...
Connecticut - A 60-year-old nurse who was employed at a facility specializing in short and long term rehabilitation, left her job after 29 years of employment due to an adverse change in her work duties. She was initially hired to work with patients who needed minimal...
According to the U.S Labor Department, initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 14,000 to a seasonally adjusted 246,000 for the week ending Jan. 28, 2017. Claims have now been below 300,000, a threshold associated with a healthy labor market, for 100...
Milwaukee - A recent ruling by the state Court of Appeals reversed the Unemployment Agency's attempt to deny unemployment benefits to a worker accused of "substantial fault" even though that worker admitted to both being aware of the employer's very clear and...
Missouri - A new bill (HB 288) proposes that unemployment benefits be cut based on the state's unemployment rate. If passed, the unemployment eligibility period will drop one week for every half percent change in the unemployment rate. If the unemployment rate is 9...
On Tuesday January 17th, the Senate signed a bill that will enable the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to gain access to the National Directory of New Hires, a federal database that contains personal and financial data on nearly every working American, as well...
Michigan - The State of Michigan used an error-prone computer system that has wrongly accused tens of thousands of people of unemployment insurance fraud dating all the way back to 2007. Michigan residents who have been falsely accused are estimated to number between...
Pennsylvania - Due to the expiration of a four-year funding stream to the Unemployment Compensation (UC) program, hundreds of state workers were laid off leaving many state unemployment call centers severely understaffed. Before layoffs, the average wait time to call...
The U.S. Department of Labor has issued guidance clarifying when states should deem colleges’ contingent faculty members eligible for unemployment compensation. It spells out what criteria the state agencies should use in determining whether such instructors have lost...
The Bay State's unemployment rate dropped to 2.9% in November, marking the first time it has dipped below 3% since the beginning of the century. Please click the link below for more details Massachusetts unemployment rate falls below 3 percent
