Maryland Governor Larry Hogan announced yesterday a significant reduction in the state’s unemployment insurance taxes due to a high balance in the unemployment trust fund. “Due to the strong growth…
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The Maine Department of Labor is reporting that Maine unemployment taxes will fall in 2016 to their lowest rate since 2009 due to increases in employment in the state. In…
Webcast Announcement Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 Time(s): 12:00 PM EASTERN; and On-Demand CPE Credit: 1.00 hours(s) Duration: 1 hour REGISTER HERE Nonprofit organizations that are prepared ahead of time for…
An industry leading HR department benchmark and analysis report seems to indicate that the post-recession HR department health is recovering but that sectors outside of for-profit businesses continue to underfund their HR…
It is that time of year again. CareerBuilder has released their list of the best employee illness excuses of 2015. After polling over 2,000 hiring and human resource managers along…
The Indiana State Budget Committee decided last week to approve Gov. Mike Pence’s plan to pay-off the state’s federal unemployment loan early. The loan was acquired during the Great Recession…
The potential health benefits associated with drinking coffee include: protecting against type 2 diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, liver disease, liver cancer, and promoting a healthy heart. This fad beverage saw its original…
A New Jersey appellate court has ruled for the first time that an employee who provides services to a state business through telecommuting is not eligible for New Jersey unemployment benefits….
Webcast Announcement Live Date: Monday, October 19, 2015 Time(s): 12:00 PM EASTERN; and On-Demand HRCI Credit: 1.00 hour(s) REGISTER HERE Locating, attracting and obtaining top talent has experienced a sizable transformation…
The formula used by Iowa to determine employer unemployment insurance taxes has been revised for 2016. This will cause the estimated average contribution rate for employers to increase from 1.24…
The world of unemployment insurance claims and benefits is at the very least unique. Past employees often times are eligible for benefits when common sense might think they are not. And…
According to recent research from staffing firm OfficeTeam, about one in three (35 percent) workers say they’ve had an office bully. More than one-quarter (27 percent) of human resources (HR) managers…
