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Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) is a state agency of Louisiana, headquartered in Baton Rouge. [1] It was previously called the Louisiana Department of Labor. [2] The name changed in 2008. [3] It gives assistance to state residents who had lost their jobs. [4] In 2018 it had 925 people working for the agency. [5]
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.
Employees entitled to notice under the WARN Act include managers and supervisors, hourly wage, and salaried workers. The WARN Act requires that notice also be given to employees' representatives (e.g., a labor union), the local chief elected official (e.g. the mayor), and the state dislocated worker unit. The advance notice is intended to give ...
Before 2011, every state in the country offered as many as 26 weeks of unemployment insurance, according to a 2022 Congressional Research Service report, but the Great Recession changed everything.
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Over the 20th century, federal law created minimum social and economic rights, and encouraged state laws to go beyond the minimum to favor employees. [4] The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 requires a federal minimum wage , currently $7.25 but higher in 29 states and D.C., and discourages working weeks over 40 hours through time-and-a-half ...
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