In R.I., you may have to look for work to stay on unemployment
By Brian Amaral Globe Staff,Updated April 21, 2021, 2:38 p.m.
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Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training building in Cranston, R.I.Courtesy of the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training
PROVIDENCE â Rhode Island is preparing to bring back the requirement that you have to look for work and be available and able to do it while youâre collecting unemployment.
Acting Department of Labor and Training Director Matt Weldon said in an interview Tuesday that those rules, suspended at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, would be back in place âin the coming weeks.â