Employee Forced to Quit Receives Favorable Ruling
Connecticut – A 60-year-old nurse who was employed at a facility specializing in short and long term rehabilitation, left her job after 29 years of employment due to an adverse change in her work...
View ArticleDoes a Low Unemployment Rate Equal Higher Wages?
With the national unemployment rate remaining below 5 percent, many wonder if pay rates will increase as businesses begin competing for available skilled workers. According to Marcia Miceli, Professor...
View ArticleMeghan Avery Promoted to Director of Operations
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Unemployment Tax Control Associates, Inc. (UTCA), a national unemployment insurance service provider based in Springfield, Mass., with an office in Boston, today announced the...
View ArticleDrug Tests and Unemployment Compensation
The House has passed a resolution (H.J. Res. 42), sponsored by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) expressing disapproval of a Labor Department rule restricting state government from requiring drug testing for...
View ArticleFormer Executive Receives Unemployment after Alleged Ethics Violations were...
New Haven, CT – After initially being denied unemployment benefits in September 2015, Nichole Jefferson, former Executive Director of the Commission on Equal Opportunities, has won the city’s second...
View ArticleUnemployment Offset Determined Unlawful in Back-Pay Awards
New Jersey – A recent Appellate Court ruling determined that a plaintiff-employee’s unemployment benefits were incorrectly credited against a verdict he obtained in a discrimination suit against his...
View ArticleNew Unemployment Bill Proposes Paid Family Leave
Connecticut – On Wednesday March 8th, the Connecticut Business and Industry Association (CBIA) sponsored a lobbying event that discussed, amongst other issues, a new unemployment compensation bill. The...
View ArticleUnemployment Claims Catapult Despite an Overall Healthy Job Market
In just two weeks’ time, the number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits catapulted from just 20,000 to 243,000 which is well above economists’ predictions of unemployment claims coming...
View ArticleState Sues IBM for Failed Unemployment Computer System Overhaul
Pennsylvania – On Thursday March 9th, Governor Tom Wolfe’s Administration filed a lawsuit against IBM for breach of contract. In a public statement Governor Wolf said “Pennsylvania taxpayers paid IBM...
View ArticleYouth Unemployment Rates Rise
Connecticut – According to the 2016 State of Working Connecticut Report the state added 5,700 jobs in January and the unemployment rate remained at a relatively healthy 4.5 percent, but according to...
View ArticleConnecticut’s Worker Classification Test is on Trial
Connecticut employers who use independent contractors in their business operations should be awaiting a decision in the Southwest Appraisal Group case with interest. In this case, Part “C” of...
View ArticleConnecticut is “Chasing Cheaters”
The Connecticut Department of Labor (DOL) and the Division of Criminal Justice have joined forces to combat the state’s unemployment fraud issue. So far they have arrested 200 people charged with...
View ArticlePrisoner Charged With First Degree Unemployment Fraud
Connecticut – 31 year old Jose Velez of Waterbury, who is currently serving a six-year prison sentence for first-degree robbery and escape from custody, will be going back to court for another...
View ArticleSuspended Lawyers Can’t Represent UI Claimants
Pennsylvania – On March 28th, the State Supreme Court ruled that those with suspended law licenses cannot represent claimants before the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review. This ruling reverses...
View ArticleNew Bill Brings Back Laid Off Workers
Pennsylvania – On March 20th, a bill was passed allocating $15 million to the Department of Labor, which due to lack of funding, has undergone hundreds of layoffs and three office closings in the past...
View ArticleMassachusetts Millionaires Collected Over $1Million in Unemployment Benefits
Massachusetts – According to a report published by Greg Ryan, Law & Money Reporter for the Boston Business Journal, nearly 160 millionaires collected approximately $1.6 million in unemployment...
View ArticleNew Law Allows Drug Testing of Unemployment Claimants
A Joint Resolution supported by U.S. Representative Kevin Brady and Senator Ted Cruz, regarding drug testing and unemployment eligibility, has officially been signed into law by President Trump. With...
View ArticleComprehensive Employee Handbooks Help Fight Unemployment Claims
If employers are to minimize the disbursement of unemployment benefits, it is imperative that they form a solid employee policy, free of potentially confusing language and unnecessary or outdated...
View ArticleVoluntary Quits & Unemployment Benefits
Workers who quit voluntarily usually are not eligible for unemployment benefits, unless they can show they had a “necessitous and compelling” reason for leaving their employment, as was the case in a...
View ArticleWhat Furloughed Federal Employees Can Expect
With the most recent threat of a government shutdown averted by an emergency funding bill passed late Sunday, many are still left wondering what could have happened if the government had actually shut...
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