Michigan's Unemployment Insurance Agency is in the news again; and again it's not good news. In a report released yesterday, state auditor Doug Ringler says that the state is still…
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The often difficult categorization of staff as either employees or independent contractors has made news again - this time in New York. The Supreme Court of New York has overturned…
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In 2008 the State of Washington paid for and began to implement a new computer system - Next Generation Tax System (NGTS) - designed to make unemployment tax payments and claims…
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A group of nearly 200 former meat packing employees in Colorado have been granted unemployment benefits by that state's department of labor after the employees were fired for walking off the job to…
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The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that recent changes to the state's unemployment insurance program unconstitutional on a technicality. The unemployment changes were passed in HB 150 this past spring. The law reduced the…
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Unemployed persons in Wisconsin may now lose their unemployment benefits if they fail a drug test or refuse to take one from an employer as part of an offer of employment.…
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The Kansas Court of Appeals has denied a hospital worker, who was terminated for objecting to receive a flu vaccine, unemployment benefits. According to the Topeka Capital-Journal the appeals panel said the terminated…
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If your organization will be laying off some of its workforce in the coming months as a result of your busy season coming to an end, should these separations be reported as…
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Employees in Wisconsin can no longer be denied unemployment benefits if they were terminated for repeated inadvertent errors - even if they were repeatedly warned. "Repeated inadvertent errors do not…
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Minnesota's unemployment compensation fund - the pool of money required by federal law to be used to pay unemployment claims - has reached federally recommend levels for the fist time,…
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