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To effect its mission, the Department administers unemployment benefits and workers' compensation programs for the state of Wisconsin; ensures compliance with state laws on wages and discrimination; provides job resources, training, and employment assistance for job-seekers; and engages with employers to help them find and maintain adequate ...
Esperanza Unida, Inc. is a non-profit organization based in Milwaukee that represents Latino workers in workers' and unemployment compensation hearings. The organization's mission is to provide un- and underemployed individuals with training for steady, family-supporting jobs, from asbestos removal to car repairs to welding to child care.
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.
May 12, 2009: The Wisconsin Senate called an extraordinary session to deal with Assembly Bill 255 – relating to eligibility for unemployment benefits and other matters relating to disbursement of funds from the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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January 29, 1932: An Act ... relating to unemployment reserves and compensation, providing penalties, and making appropriations, 1932 Special Session Act 20. Established Wisconsin's unemployment insurance program, the first such program in the United States and a model for the future Social Security Act .
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June 29, 2021: Governor Tony Evers vetoed an act of the Legislature which would have ended federal supplemental unemployment benefits funded under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. [ 3 ] July 27, 2021: The Wisconsin Legislature met in extraordinary session and failed to override the veto of an act which would have ended federal supplemental ...