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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 Department of Labor and Industry, the department is one of 16 executive branch departments in New Jersey state government.
Unemployment Insurance (UI) is a federal-state program created to provide partial wage replacement to unemployed workers while they conduct an active search for new work. The UI program benefits the individual and the local community. For the most part, UI benefits are spent in the local community, which helps sustain the economic well-being of ...
The Employment Development Department is unveiling a newly updated and simplified unemployment benefit application that makes it easier to file. California's new application for unemployment ...
In California, for instance, the state unemployment rate hit 5.3% in February, up 0.8% from a year ago and the highest in the nation. New Jersey's unemployment rate hit 4.8% in February, also up 0.8%.
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 bill, introduced this week, would make California just the third state to do this, joining New York and New Jersey. Labor unions and progressive policy groups say businesses are to blame for
The vast majority of states, with the exception of New York and New Jersey, do not offer unemployment benefits to striking workers. California governor vetoes bill offering unemployment pay to ...
An act to amend Section 3351 of, and to add Section 2750.3 to, the Labor Code, and to amend Sections 606.5 and 621 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to employment, and making an appropriation therefor: Introduced: 2018-12-03: Assembly voted: 2019-09-11 (56–15) Senate voted: 2019-09-10 (29–11) Signed into law: 2019-09-18: Governor