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Iowa Workforce Development is a government agency in the American state of Iowa, responsible for overseeing workplace safety, workers' compensation, unemployment insurance and job training services. It was formed in May 1996.
Now, the average time Iowans spend on unemployment is down to 10 weeks, and once people return to a job, it pays 50% more than the maximum weekly unemployment benefit. Iowans are also earning ...
As Iowa businesses make labor shortages their top legislative priority, U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson introduces bills aimed at addressing workforce issues.
The Mobile Workforce Center will be back on the Tyson grounds from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday. Townsend said the bus' crew of employment counselors remained steadily busy assisting workers ...
Unemployment Insurance Tax System, or UITS, refers to an online application created by Iowa Workforce Development in 2007 to allow employer's to submit quarterly unemployment insurance tax reports online. [1] [2] [3]
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.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 231,000 for the week ended Aug. 24. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast 232,000 claims for the latest week.
The first substantial federal training programs in the postwar period were enacted in the Manpower Development Training Act (MDTA; Pub. L. 87–415) in 1962, although federal "employment policy," broadly defined, had its origin in New Deal era programs such as Unemployment Insurance (UI) and public works employment. Starting with MDTA, there ...