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Losing your job can devastate your financial life if, like most Americans, you don't have a hefty pot of gold in the form of ample emergency savings. Preparation for the worst-case scenario,...
For others who are looking for health insurance after they lose a job, many private sector employers (as well as state and local governments) offer COBRA continuation coverage. It can be expensive ...
An unexpected job loss can be one of the most emotionally and financially devastating experiences in a worker's life. Along with the stress of a loss of employment comes the reality of living ...
Wage insurance is a form of proposed insurance that would provide workers with compensation if they are forced to move to a job with a lower salary. The idea is usually proposed as a response to outsourcing and the effects of globalization, although it could equally be proposed as a response to job displacement due to increasingly productive technology (e.g. factories, or computers).
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 term job lock is used to describe the inability of an employee to freely leave a job because doing so will result in the loss of employee benefits (usually health or retirement related).
During the first quarter of 2023, companies announced 270,000 job cuts, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, more than four times the number of cuts during the same period...
Income Protection Insurance (IPI) also known as loss of earnings insurance is an insurance policy paying benefits to policyholders who are incapacitated and hence unable to work due to illness or accident. This is typically a replacement for lost income suffered by the policy holder. These policies were formerly called Permanent Health ...