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“Still, too many New Jersey workers and families have been failed" by unemployment insurance. All told, 737,400 workers “face barriers to unemployment at any moment,” the report says. They ...
Daniel Munoz, NorthJersey.com. October 3, 2024 at 4:22 AM. Dockworkers striking at ports in New Jersey and New York have one key tool in their arsenal: The Garden and Empire states are the only ...
Robert Asaro-Angelo labor leader and commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development at the daily briefing in Trenton NJ on 5/7/2020
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 COVID-19 pandemic reached the U.S. state of New Jersey with the first confirmed case occurring in Bergen County on March 2, 2020, and testing positive on March 4. As of January 11, 2022, 1.63 million cases were confirmed in the state, incurring 26,795 deaths. [1] On March 9, 2020, Governor Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency.
The New Jersey Civil Service Commission is an independent body within the New Jersey state government under the auspices of the department. Initially constituted in the late-1940s, pursuant to P.L. 1948, c.446, as the Department of Labor and Industry, the department is one of 16 executive branch departments in New Jersey state government.
If you work fewer than 10 hours, you can report zero hours to UI, and retain your full unemployment insurance payment. Weekly, 11-16 hours of work is the equivalent of one day of work and would ...
A House bill introduced by Representative Shelley Berkley (D-NV-1) on August 10, 2010, will, if passed, benefit those who have exhausted all of their benefits by providing an additional 20 weeks of unemployment benefits under a Tier 5. The bill has an unemployment rate threshold of 10% which requires states to have an unemployment rate at 10% ...