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A Foster woman is accused of stealing 132 checks worth $115,252.72 while working for the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training. State police: RI state employee stole 132 unemployment ...
PROVIDENCE – Come New Year's Day, Rhode Island's minimum wage will rise by $1 to a new high of $14 an hour, in the next-to-last step before reaching a long-sought $15 an hour in 2025.From health ...
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 United States Department of Labor (DOL) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government.It is responsible for the administration of federal laws governing occupational safety and health, wage and hour standards, unemployment benefits, reemployment services, and occasionally, economic statistics.
The Bureau of Labor was established within the Department of the Interior on June 27, 1884, to collect information about employment and labor. Its creation under the Bureau of Labor Act (23 Stat. 60) stemmed from the findings of U.S. Senator Henry W. Blair's "Labor and Capital Hearings", which examined labor issues and working conditions in the U.S. [6] Statistician Carroll D. Wright became ...
Jobless claims dipped by 2,000 to 210,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Overall, 1.8 million Americans were collecting unemployment benefits the week that ended March 16, up 24,000 from ...
Of the total allotment to states, 90% may be used for labor exchange services such as job search and placement assistance, labor market information, and referral to employers. The remaining 10% (Governor's Reserve) of the state allotment may be used for activities such as performance incentives and services for groups with special needs.