Michigan has amended its Employment Security Act for 2016. The state seems to be comfortable with its current unemployment trust fund balance of approximately $2,500,000,000. The state is also projecting that…
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Washington State is paying inmates unemployment benefits. The state is not just paying unemployed workers who may have had too good of a night out on the town and had to…
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In the ongoing conflict between employers and government regulators over exactly who can be a contracted employee and who cannot, the California Employment Development Department (EDD) continues to poke holes in Uber's…
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Employers in Illinois may now have an easier time defending themselves against unemployment claims because of changes to the Illinois Unemployment Act that took effect in January combined with a recent decision…
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We've written in this space before about the condition of various state unemployment insurance funds. (Florida and California are excellent examples.) We've also documented the many changes to unemployment insurance…
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Nevada ran into a situation this month were one set of its laws may not have caught up with another set of its laws. The issue surrounds workers being terminated…
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President Barack Obama used his Saturday, January 16, 2015 radio address to push for a modernization of the current federal unemployment insurance program. In his address, Obama summarized a plan designed to make it…
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Throughout January 2016, 501(c) Agencies Trust – the nation’s largest and oldest nonprofit unemployment management program – will conduct a state-wide road show to educate nonprofit executives of their financial advantages…
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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…
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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.…
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