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The state’s county data showed similar trends with 54 of the 72 counties seeing a decrease or having employment rates stay the same over the mon ... Unemployment rates dropped in 10 of Wisconsin ...
This comes after the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained at 2.9%, below the 4.2% national average. The unemployment rate went down or was the same in 11 of the 12 metropolitan ...
The Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission is a separate state commission administratively attached to the Department of Workforce Development. It is tasked with administering labor-employer relations in order to avoid strikes, lockouts, or other interruptions to commerce.
Here's a look at how weekly unemployment claims changed in Wisconsin the week of Dec. 17, 2023, compared with the week prior. Unemployment claims in Wisconsin increased in final weeks of 2023 Skip ...
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.
Unemployment benefits were introduced in Germany in 1927, and in most European countries in the period after the Second World War; with the expansion of the welfare state. Unemployment insurance in the United States originated in Wisconsin in 1932. [9]
New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, increased to 7,765 in the week ending Jan. 20, up from 6,549 the week before, the Labor Department said. U.S. unemployment claims rose to 214,000 last week ...
The 2d USES was transferred to SSB in newly created FSA by Reorganization Plan No. I of 1939, effective July 1, 1939, and consolidated with Bureau of Unemployment Compensation to form BES (SEE 183.2). [4] It was transferred from BES to War Manpower Commission (WMC) in the Office for Emergency Management by EO 9247, September 17, 1942.