BOSTON (SHNS) – Four and a half years after COVID-19 upended the state’s economy, joblessness remains low, total employment has surpassed pre-pandemic levels, and the fund used to pay jobless benefits ...
BOSTON (WWLP) – The Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development (EOLWD) will be implementing a multi-phase plan to update the unemployment insurance (UI) system. The project is expected to ...
The Massachusetts unemployment rate crept up to 4.3% in February, once again trending in the wrong direction. That seems hard to believe when the most recent National Federation of Independent ...
Long term, state officials need to rein in Massachusetts’ out-of-control unemployment insurance system. Employers are paying too much. Unemployment benefits ...