Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development is a governmental agency of the U.S. state of New Jersey. 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 ...
If you've recently lost your job in New Jersey, you may be eligible for New Jersey Unemployment Insurance benefits. This is a guide to filing your claim for New Jersey unemployment benefits. Since ...
Here's a look at how weekly unemployment claims changed in New Jersey last week compared with the week prior.
In 2023 N.J. had some 63,000 filled job positions that it didn’t have a year ago, but that wasn't enough to keep the unemployment rate from hiking. In 2023, New Jersey saw the highest increase ...
According to the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development, nearly 577,000 New Jersey workers filed for unemployment benefits over the previous three weeks. [138] By April 23, or five weeks since aggressive social distancing began, more than 858,000 New Jersey workers had filed for unemployment benefits. [ 63 ]
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.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits dropped to an eight-month low last week, pointing to low layoffs at the end of 2024 and consistent ...
Chris Christie nominated Wirths to be the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (2010-2016) and was sworn in on May 24, 2010. [3] One of his focuses as commissioner, was to modernize the state's unemployment insurance benefits system and reducing waste attributed to benefits fraud. [3]