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The Emergency Unemployment Compensation 2008 (EUC08) is an extension of unemployment benefits authorized under federal law. The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (enacted on Feb 22, 2012) modified EUC08. [4] [5] Claimants who filed an initial claim effective on or after May 7, 2006 are potentially eligible for EUC08.
Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.
Here's a look at how weekly unemployment claims changed in Massachusetts compared with the week prior. ... U.S. unemployment claims dropped to 227,000 for the week ending Aug. 31, down 5,000 ...
Robert Asaro-Angelo labor leader and commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development at the daily briefing in Trenton NJ on 5/7/2020
The New Jersey Civil Service Commission is an independent body within the New Jersey state government under the auspices of the department. Initially constituted in the late-1940s, pursuant to P.L. 1948, c.446, as the Department of Labor and Industry, the department is one of 16 executive branch departments in New Jersey state government.
U.S. unemployment claims dropped to 227,000 last week, down 7,000 claims from 234,000 the week prior on a seasonally adjusted basis. North Dakota saw the largest percentage increase in weekly ...
The total unemployment claims filed since the beginning of the pandemic have moved up to 51 million, and the situation is still not optimistic since the complete reopening keeps being postponed. [77] A record 4.3 million people (2.9% of the workforce) quit their jobs in August which is the highest quit rate since the report began in late 2000.
New Jersey’s beleaguered unemployment system has made strides since the jobless rate soared to its highest level in 40 years during the COVID-19 pandemic. But a report released Wednesday found ...