With unemployment rising and the economy slowing, a number of politicians and pundits have called for extending unemployment insurance benefits, which are given to eligible workers who have recently been laid off. ...
In the last week, new applications for unemployment insurance or jobless benefits leaped to a high not seen in sixteen years. Not since July of 1992 have new claims increased so dramatically in one week, and that was when the country ...
We also need the employee free choice act enacted into law, and we need to have unemployment insurance managed in a more compassionate way than the way the wolves in the Republiklan party have done since 1995. ...
Meanwhile, HB 162 changes how unemployment insurance benefits are calculated. Under the bill, which passed the House in 2006 but did not pass the Senate, The Texas Workforce Commission could look at any four of the last five completed ...
The Court stated that in order for an employee to be eligible for unemployment insurance benefits that employee must be considered "available" for work. And for non-United States citizens this requires a valid authorization from the ...
The lame-duck session of Congress really needs to spend on unemployment benefits, aid to save the local governments and on food stamps. Those things are very short-run and are very important. It's really the most we can do for now ...
The Workers Defense League provides free representation to hundreds of people who are believed to have been unfairly denied unemployment insurance benefits after losing or leaving their jobs. Please be aware that the individuals ...
"With more Americans filing jobless claims than at any time since the 1992, the Senate's passage of the House's unemployment insurance extension legislation will help speed relief to more than 2 million workers who continue to search ...
Instead of highlighting only college tuition assistance and job training, his recruiters also talk about "health and life insurance benefits that companies are cutting back on," he said. Master Sgt. Veronica Womack, who processes ...
The average weekly benefit is $293. And low-income workers — a category that tends to include women and those in part-time employment — are one-third as likely to receive unemployment insurance as higher-income workers. ...
