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Reopening Unemployment Claims
How to Reopen Unemployment Claims
When you get a job, your state unemployment office closes your case. However, your unemployment benefits case will not be closed permanently. You can still reopen an unemployment claim to resume your weekly claim if you’re eligible for unemployment insurance. Knowing how to reopen an unemplo.... Read more »Unemployment Adjudication and Fact Finding Mechanism
Are you wondering what unemployment adjudication means? You have landed on the right page. Here, we will define adjudication and guide you through other relevant aspects.
Adjudication Meaning
Unemployment adjudication is the legal process of settling the dispute between employee and employer. An unem.... Read more »Sectoral Unemployment: Retail Trade Hit By Coronavirus
Retail Trade is a significant sector in the modern economy. It employs a large number of people across various verticals from food to fashion. The market has players as big as Amazon to small neighborhood artisanal stores. You’d expect retail trade to be hit badly by the coronavirus, but there is a mixed record. What is the unemployment in retail trade looking lik.... Read more »
Harassment at the Workplace? 3 Tips to Come Out of It
Most Americans decide to leave their jobs due to one or the other form of harassment meted out in the workplace. Toxic work environments affect people psychologically and their performance, making it an all-round bad experience for the employees.
A study showed that nearly 6.... Read more »Jobless Claims Below 300,000 for Record Longest Streak
April marks the lowest number of jobless claims and this means that those claiming new unemployment has never been this low. With the initial jobless claims decreasing by 9,000 against a proxy of layoffs in the US that was adjusted to 233,000 in the w.... Read more »
Drug Testing Regulation Checks Unemployment Insurance Benefits
Since the 1960s, the federal laws have banned states from drug testing jobless people that apply for benefits. But after the recent legislation, Republicans now want all states to institute tests for benefits. Currently, $1.6 million has been spent on drug testing jobless people that apply for unemployment benefits. Also, o.... Read more »
American Unemployment Benefits Down to 44-Year Low
Since 1973, the number of unemployment benefits has dropped significantly. It has been reported that as of December 2017, 1.87 million Americans receive benefits. It can also be noted that the Department of Labor received its largest number of newer filings from those that survived the destructive hurricane season. This caused massive damages to businesses in southe.... Read more »
Claiming Unemployment ? Beware of Scammers
United States is one of the few countries in the World which provides temporary assistance to jobless workers in the form of unemployment insurance. The monetary compensation helps jobless citizens manage their basic expenses and run their family while they look for new job opportunities and explore career options. As a responsible citizen of the country, one should not exploit the benefits by .... Read more »
Unemployment Benefits For Seasonal And Contract Workers
States provide Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits to the people who have lost their full-time job through no fault of their own. In this article, we will tell you if states offer unemployment benefits for seasonal and contract workers. But before that, let us see who are considered as seasonal and contract workers.
Who Are Seasonal And Contract Workers?
Read more »Unemployment applications drop to lowest in Washington
New claims for unemployment benefits dropped to the lowest level after two record setting years in 2011. Applicants for unemployment fell in a row, suggesting that the job market recovery was gaining speed. Overall, average length of time in which the Washington workers collected the benefits has reduced from 42.2 weeks in 2010 to about 36.2 weeks near the end of 2011. Still, unemployment in Was.... Read more »