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Unemployment benefit changes advance in General Assembly
Updated at 5:41 p.m.
LEGISLATION AIMED at getting people back to work and relieving business-hiring woes advanced in the R.I. General Assembly on May 11. / AP FILE PHOTO/PAUL SAKUMA
PROVIDENCE – Legislation aimed at getting people back to part-time work advanced in both chambers of the General Assembly on Tuesday.
The Senate bill, sponsored by Sen. Maryellen Goodwin, D-Providence, passed by a 35-1 vote. Earlier Tuesday, the House Finance Committee unanimously approved an identical piece of companion legislation from Rep. Carol Hagan McEntee, D-South Kingstown, sending it to the full House for a vote.
PROVIDENCE One executive chef, one sous chef, four line cooks, four prep cooks, two dishwashers, four hosts, six servers and a slew of counter staff.
These are just a handful of the 30 employees Kim Anderson needs to fully staff Plant City in Providence.
Anderson is so desperate to hire trained staff that she is offering a $250 gift certificate to anyone who recommends someone she can hire.
And she is placing a note on every place setting with a list of unfilled jobs and a line that says,” Do you know someone interested in joining our team?”
The second pandemic: That’s what some restaurant owners are calling the dearth of restaurant workers this spring.
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