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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
BOSTON — Massachusetts must pay the federal government $2.1 billion over the next decade after the Baker administration mistakenly used federal pandemic funds to cover unemployment benefits, officials ...
Long term, state officials need to rein in Massachusetts’ out-of-control unemployment insurance system. Employers are paying too much. Unemployment benefits ...