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The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry is a cabinet-level agency in the Government of Pennsylvania.The agency is charged with the task of overseeing the health and safety of workers, enforcement of the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code, vocational rehabilitation for people with disabilities, and administration of unemployment benefits and Workers' compensation.
Pennsylvania CareerLink serves as a contact point for the Office of Unemployment Compensation. Unemployment representatives within Pennsylvania CareerLink offices provide a direct connection to the Office through which applications for unemployment benefits can be completed and additional information can be gathered. These representatives are ...
May 28—Pennsylvania's online compensation system is getting a long-overdue overhaul. The system used by the Department of Labor and Industry is four decades old, making it outdated, according to ...
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 jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 11,504 in the week ending November 11, down from 12,241 the week before, the Labor Department said. U.S. unemployment claims rose to 231,000 last ...
Mar. 8—WILKES-BARRE — Pennsylvania's total non-farm jobs were up 14,800 over the month to a record high of 6,129,900 — the sixth consecutive record high for Pennsylvania's jobs count. Jobs ...
He became the first Pennsylvania Cabinet secretary to take office without Senate approval. [3] Oleksiak joined the Department following a performance audit that showed almost $180 million in taxpayer dollars was spent under his leadership of Manderino on a botched modernization project for unemployment compensation.
Nov. 17—WILKES-BARRE — Pennsylvania's unemployment rate was unchanged over the month, remaining at the record low of 3.4% set in October. The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I ...