Brewer said the state has maintained a strong balance in its
unemployment insurance trust fund, even after several years of high unemployment claims, and the fund has a projected end-of-the-year balance of $546 million.
The entire concept of
unemployment insurance has come under attack by free-market fundamentalists who believe jobless benefits reduce people's incentive to work.
Potentially, a low demand for labor will dampen the incentive effects of
unemployment insurance benefits.
The bill will pass, either later today or tomorrow, and will extend
unemployment insurance benefits until Nov.
In an interview Friday, Barbour said he, too, would likely decline funds for broadening access to
unemployment insurance.
In most countries the
unemployment insurance is mandatory.
The Swedish IT group WM-data AB said on Thursday (28 September) that it has received an extension to its outsourcing contract from Arbetsloshetskassornas Samorganisation (the federation of Swedish
unemployment insurance funds).
policymakers created the
unemployment insurance system, which required employers to pay insurance premiums into a fund and allowed temporarily unemployed workers to receive some continuing income.
Our annual summaries of developments in State labor and
unemployment insurance legislation are led off by John J.
States have adopted the following uniform order of priority in determining when an individual engaged in interstate employment is "employed" for purposes of remitting state
unemployment insurance payments.
And Maryland's Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation has found that the organization has failed to pay both state workers' compensation and
unemployment insurance.
Businesses and their advisers engage in SUTA dumping to illegally reduce
unemployment insurance rates.
