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BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Sandra Taimre sandra.taimre @ aripaev.ee Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund forecasts that by the end of this year, there will be over 4,000 Estonian who receive unemployment compensation. That is 1,200 person more than now and almost three times more than the board forecasted last autumn. The highest number of people laid off in 2008 are connected to the textile sector. Hansabank analyst Maris Lauri...
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Two Babes and a Brain (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
How much more can the small business owner take? Not only do we deal over taxation... retail sales tax, payroll tax, payroll social security; unemployment insurance, worker's comp insurance, environmental fees (all of which are required to be paid by...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jobless claims jumped last week and the pace of existing home sales tumbled to a 10-year low as slowing growth hit hiring and a glut of unsold homes weighed on the real estate market, data on Thursday showed.
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Business Spectator (Free subscription) | yesterday
Number of US workers filing new claims rise more than expected. 24 Jul 2008 11:37 PM
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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | yesterday
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday required ministries and other State agencies to stabilise fuel supplies, control the market and ensure social security after petrol prices rose to a record high on Monday. Prices of electricity, clean water, coal and other goods and services on the list for State-controlled pricing must be kept stable, said the Prime Minister. In terms of social welfare,
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
The new rules are aimed at making it harder for companies to misclassify their workers as "independent contractors," to avoid paying Social Security, Medicare, workers' compensation or unemployment insurance. Union officials say the practice is widespread in construction, allowing companies to underbid their competitors.
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
The new rules are aimed at making it harder for companies to misclassify their workers as "independent contractors," to avoid paying Social Security, Medicare, workers' compensation or unemployment insurance. Union officials say the practice is widespread in construction, allowing companies to underbid their competitors.
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Xorte latest economic news (Free subscription) | yesterday
In June, employers took 1,643 mass layoff actions, seasonally adjusted, as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits during the month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported. Each action involved at least 50 persons from a single employer; the number of workers involved totaled 165,697, on a seasonally adjusted basis.
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The St Louis Business Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Online scam artists are trying to dupe Missourians looking to file unemployment insurance claims by asking for their personal information, the state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations said Wednesday.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
U.S. employers last month announced the most mass layoff actions for the month of June since 2003, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said today. Also, new claims for unemployment insurance by workers involved in mass layoff actions hit their highest level since 2002.
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The Denver Business Journal (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The number of Coloradans filing initial claims for unemployment insurance because of mass layoffs fell to its lowest rate in more than 10 years during June, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Source: [b]RTTNews[/b] (RTTNews) - Wednesday morning, the Department of Labor released its report on mass layoffs in the month of June, showing that layoff events were the highest for the month of June since 2003. The report showed that employers took 1,643 mass layoff actions in June, as measu...
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SouthAfrica.info RSS feed (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The Unemployment Insurance Fund had registered over R27.8-billion in collections by the end of March this year, Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana says, and now covers almost half of the working people in South Africa.
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
City Council is set to take up an ordinance today that would require better recordkeeping by construction contractors who do work for the city.
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Docuticker (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Emergency Unemployment Compensation Source: Congressional Research Service (via Federation of American Scientists) The Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program was created by P.L. 110-252. This new temporary unemployment insurance program provides up to 13 additional weeks of unemployment benefits to certain workers who have exhausted their rights to regular unemployment compensation (UC)...
