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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 ...
Between May 2023 and May 2024, the private sector in New Jersey grew by 69,000 jobs, though the unemployment rate rose to 4.6% from 4.2%. Most of those were in lower-paying jobs like restaurants ...
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.
New Jersey’s beleaguered unemployment system has made strides since the jobless rate soared to its highest level in 40 years during the COVID-19 pandemic. But a report released Wednesday found ...
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.
The unemployment insurance program is a benefit for workers who have lost their jobs. The maximum duration of benefits has increased from 26 to 99 weeks in some states. Unemployment extensions across the U.S. are typically not a concern due to stringent policies that state unemployment agencies have enacted in recent years.
Robert Asaro-Angelo labor leader and commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development at the daily briefing in Trenton NJ on 5/7/2020
Economics. Unemployment benefits, also called unemployment insurance, unemployment payment, unemployment compensation, or simply unemployment, are payments made by governmental bodies to unemployed people. Depending on the country and the status of the person, those sums may be small, covering only basic needs, or may compensate the lost time ...