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The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) connects job seekers with great jobs, provides an up-to-date and accurate picture of the economy to help decision making, assists workers who have been injured on the job, ensures fair labor practices, helps those who have lost their jobs by providing temporary wage replacement through unemployment benefits, and protects the workplace ...
An unemployment extension occurs when regular unemployment benefits are exhausted and extended for additional weeks. Unemployment extensions are created by passing new legislation at the federal level, often referred to as an "unemployment extension bill". This new legislation is introduced and passed during times of high or above average ...
The United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the average (mean) duration of unemployment in weeks was 37.2 weeks in November 2013. The median duration was 17.0 weeks. 22.6% of people who were unemployed found a new job in less than 5 weeks, while 37.3% had been unemployed for 27 weeks or more.
If you work fewer than 10 hours, you can report zero hours to UI, and retain your full unemployment insurance payment. Weekly, 11-16 hours of work is the equivalent of one day of work and would ...
September 12, 2024 at 8:33 AM. WASHINGTON (AP) — Slightly more Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, but layoffs remain at historically low levels. Show comments.
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.
The U.S. unemployment rate continues to hover around 9%, with nearly 14 million Americans out of work.Worse still, many of them are remaining unemployed for extended periods: According to April's ...
Since the start of the recession, 8.8 million jobs have been lost, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. [10] In the U.S., jobs paying between $14 and $21 per hour made up about 60% those lost during the recession, but such mid-wage jobs have comprised only about 27% of jobs gained during the recovery through mid-2012.