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The Senate Labor Committee today voted to exclude unemployment benefits paid during the pandemic from the calculation of employer contributions to the state unemployment insurance system. NJBIA testified in favor of the bill. The legislation, S-2504 (Ruiz, D-29), would protect businesses from having to pay higher rates for unemployment insurance because their businesses were shut […]
Nearly 70,000 new unemployment claims were filed in New Jersey last week, as the Labor Department processed another 262,000 weeks worth of federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), and saw total pandemic-related payments rise to $2.7 billion. The number of initial claims filed since mid-March approached 1.1 million, with more than 725,000 actively collecting state and […]
In an ongoing commitment to enhance customer service during a time of historically high volume, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) has launched a chat feature, or “chatbot,” on its website to answer customers’ unemployment questions. The feature simulates a human text response to provide real-time responses to the 20 most […]
The U.S. Department of Labor is hosting a national online dialogue on “Opening America’s Workplaces Again,” to solicit ideas from the public on how best to help employers and workers reopen America’s workplaces safely. The dialogue will run from April 30 through May 7 and will include a one-hour Twitter chat on Friday, May 1, […]
TRENTON – The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development has posted step-by-step instructions for the more than 550,000 workers who will go online to claim their weekly unemployment benefits starting Sunday. The easy-to-follow guide can be accessed here. Workers must certify their eligibility and availability for work each week in order to continue receiving benefits, in accordance with federal labor department rules, […]
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