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Ohio to receive millions in federal jobless worker re-employment funds

  • jobless worker benefits
  • June 20, 2011
COLUMBUS, Ohio (CGE) - The U.S. Department of Labor [DOL] announced $48.7 million in funding for 37 states and the District of Columbia Monday to...
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Ohio Sen. Brown applauds Solis visit; ex-DHL workers cheer added DOL funds

COLUMBUS, Ohio (CGE) - On the same day Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis was in northwest Ohio touring the Toledo Jeep Assembly complex and...
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Workplace issues: what the bi-partisan framework on UI, tax cut and jobs means?

  • bi-partisan framework on UI
  • December 10, 2010
President Obama on Wednesday in Washington laid a bipartisan agreement that would extend Unemployment Insurance and keep the taxes paid by middle...
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Workplace issues: National Emergency Grant for layoffs workers

  • National Emergency Grants
  • December 6, 2010
The U.S. Department of Labor has announced a $709,864 National Emergency Grant increment to continue to provide re-employment and retraining...
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Workplace issues: The unemployed versus US Congress

The number of people applying for unemployment benefits actually rose last week, by 26,000 to a seasonally adjusted 436,000, the Labor Department...
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Labor Secretary issues another urgent alert on unemployment extensions

A day after Congress allowed federal unemployment extensions to lapse for millions of Americans, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis yesterday issued an...
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Workplace issues: DOL announces 2011 TAA initial funding allocations

  • TAA initial funding allocations
  • November 17, 2010
The U.S. Department of Labor has announced the initial funding allocations for Trade Adjustment Assistance for states to assist workers who lose...
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Workplace issues: DOL streamlines federal hiring process

  • President Obama's hiring reform initiative
  • November 15, 2010
In a news release today, the U.S. Department of Labor joined representatives from across the federal government to mark the progress made over the...
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Workplace issues: Trade Adjustment Assistance application now online, says DOL

  • TAA application now online
  • November 12, 2010
The U.S. Department of Labor has launched an online system for filing Trade Adjustment Assistance petitions. The department expects that the online...
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