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The DLHR is responsible for setting and implementing public policy in the areas of labor relations, occupational safety, unemployment insurance benefits, re-employment services, and human resources training in the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The Department is also responsible for some economic statistics. [1]
Weekly unemployment claims continue to move lower as labor market data normalizes following hurricane ... the number of continuing applications for unemployment benefits hit 1.9 million, up 36,000 ...
Unemployment benefits generally last 26 weeks, but this depends on your state. For example, CNBC noted that Missouri recently reduced benefit duration and some workers only receive payments for ...
During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Puerto Rico, the United States passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES), which included a broad unemployment benefits program, the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), for any individual who was out of work due to the pandemic.
Weekly unemployment claims are seen as a proxy for the number of U.S. layoffs in a given week. Applications for unemployment benefits fell by 9,000 to 218,000 for the week ending Feb. 3, the Labor ...
Weekly jobless claims unexpectedly fell last week in a sign that turnover in the labor market remains low. New data from the Department of Labor showed 227,000 initial jobless claims were filed in ...
With the unemployment rate moving higher throughout most of 2024 and monthly job gains slowing, the labor market is ending the year inarguably having cooled from where it started. The hiring rate ...
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the system of unemployment benefits was expanded in such a way that it enabled self-employed people to get weekly checks. Few safeguards were in place to prevent ineligible people from getting these checks. [4] This led to massive fraud, reaching around $20 billion, [5] "perhaps the largest fraud wave in ...