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Senate Unexpectedly Moves Forward On Unemployment Benefits
(2014-07-14)
News story from All Things Considered on the Senate's vote to proceed on a bill to temporarily extend emergency unemployment benefits.
Integrity Center Suspicious Actor Repository Webinar
(2018-04-03)
Notice dated April 3, 2018 announcing that the UI Integrity Center will host a webinar titled "Access and Using the Suspicious Actor Repository" on Thursday, April 19, 2018.
Fix the Cracks in Unemployment Insurance
(2016-07-22)
News article offering strategies for improving unemployment insurance and helping workers and job seekers.
How Automation Could Impact the Public Workforce
(1/4/2018)
Article in Governing.com by Mike Maciag on how automation could impact the public workforce including the job security of certain government personnel who perform repetitive back-office tasks, such as eligibility checks.
Tax Law Offers a Carrot to Gig Workers. But It May Have Costs.
(12/31/2017)
Article in The New York Times by Noam Scheiber on how tax law offers a carrot to gig workers by rewarding workers who sever formal relationships with their employers and become contractors, but it may have costs.
Georgia unemployment insurance appeals unit named best in nation among large states
(2016-11-18)
News story on the naming of Georgia Department of Labor's (GDOL) Unemployment Insurance (UI) Appeals Tribunal as the best performer among the nation's 22 largest states for handling UI appeals by the United States Department ...
Unemployment Insurance and Worker Mobility
(2/8/2018)
Article from the Urban Institute by Ryan Nunn, Laura Kawano, and Ben Klemens on how Unemployment insurance (UI) helps workers to smooth their consumption after employment loss, but also diminishes their incentive to quickly ...
The U.S. Still Has No Idea How Many Puerto Ricans Are Out of Work
(2/15/2018)
Article from CNN.com by Patrick Gillespie on how five months after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, the U.S. government still can't keep a precise track of how many people are filing for unemployment on the island. The ...
Study Finds Electronic Unemployment Insurance Data Submission Tool a "Game-Changer" in Accuracy, Timeliness, and Reducing Man Hours
(2017-11-29)
Press Release issued on November 29, 2017, by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA), announcing a study that found that the joint use of the Separation Information Data Exchange System (SIDES) by ...
Exec fired over co-worker's $1.3M embezzlement can get unemployment comp, court rules
(2015-06-25)
This news article reports a case of a Pennsylvania executive seeking unemployment compensation after he was fired for not overseeing the work of an employee after he was specifically told not to supervise the employee.