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Filing for Unemployment : Unemployed Alabama workers can file an unemployment claim online or toll free 1-866-234-5382 (7am - 5pm, Mon. - Fri.) to the Alabama Initial Claims Line. An automated ...
The state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 5.8% in April 2015. [8] This compared to a nationwide seasonally adjusted rate of 5.4%. [9] Alabama has no state minimum wage and in February 2016 passed legislation preventing municipalities from setting a local minimum wage. (A Birmingham city ordinance would have raised theirs to $10.10 ...
Here's a look at how weekly unemployment claims changed in Alabama last week compared with the week prior.
Alabama is one of the states in which the governor has the power to accept or reject any particular item of an appropriation bill without vetoing the entire bill. In this event, only the vetoed item of the appropriation bill is returned to the house of origin for reconsideration by the Legislature. The remainder of the bill becomes law.
Under Governor Riley, Alabama's unemployment has continued to climb, and Alabama Department of Industrial Relations Director Tom Surtees issued a press release dated June 19, 2009, which indicated that Alabama's unemployment rate for May rose to 9.8%, an increase from April's rate of 9.0%, and is Alabama's highest unemployment rate in 25 years.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 22,000 to a seasonally adjusted 220,000 for the week ended Dec. 14, the Labor Department said. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast ...
Unemployment benefits are generally given only to those registering as becoming unemployed through no fault of their own, and often on conditions ensuring that they seek work. In British English, unemployment benefits are also colloquially referred to as "the dole"; [1] [2] receiving benefits is informally called "being on the dole". [3] "
U.S. applications for unemployment benefits jumped to their highest level in two months last week but remain low relative to historical standards. Jobless claim applications climbed by 17,000 to ...