Wiesenborn shares a personal experience with North Dakota Job Service.
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Jesse Wiesenborn | ×
North Dakota Job Service recently determined that I voluntarily quit my employment, thus denying my state unemployment insurance. Now on June 19th, the same agency will voluntarily quit its participation in federal pandemic unemployment assistance the only kind of economic assistance for which I was eligible.
It is this brand of hypocrisy that drives our skilled workers and taxpayers to leave North Dakota.
Jesse Wiesenborn lives in Fargo
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KVRR Local News
April 15, 2021
NORTH DAKOTA (KVRR) – North Dakota Job Service is upgrading a link to help out employers.
It helps employers report anyone who doesn’t return back to work or anyone who is a no-call no-show for job interviews.
The report has been usually filed over the phone but is now accessible online. The Job Service Communication Strategy Manager says the investigation only happens if the individual is on unemployment benefits.
“If the person is receiving unemployment insurance with us, then we look into it further because they are required to be doing job searches and able to maintain their qualifications for unemployment insurance,” Sarah Arntson with Job Service North Dakota said.
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Great River was planning to invest $1.6 billion to build 800 megawatts of wind farms in the Coal Creek area to help compensate for closing the power plant.
Nearby, Mercer County passed a two-year moratorium on wind energy development, a move that threatens the 152-megawatt Garrison Butte Wind Farm, expected to create 150 construction jobs and generate millions of dollars in payments to landowners and local governments.
The backlash in coal country against the wind industry is both costly and misguided, according to a pro-wind group, North Dakotans for Comprehensive Energy Solutions.
“What’s happening to the coal industry is not based on decisions created by the wind industry,” said Bob Harms of the group, which represents the wind energy industry. “That’s an illusion.”