Prepare, they should be sitting at the table with us bargaining to get a contract. Reporter management is offering 10 wage increase, they say bart unions want 2 1. 5 . Now, allen, so they are still very far apart. Yeah. Da, i understand the training time thats needed but who can say the bart managers can do this, ultimately . Reporter it will be the bart board of directors. Those directors would have to vote and give bart the authority to allow managers to operate the trains. And that vote is still to come. Da, thank you. Thousands of unemployed californians are learning it could be a while before they get their benefit check. The state Unemployment Development Department is switching to a new computer system. Were told the process is holding up payments to about 20,000 people. The state says its working on it but for people waiting for a check, the fix cant come fast enough. Got a claim number even but never got a check. And so my unemployment was for two months. Never got a check for
By Daniela Pardo and Hannah Poukish Sacramento PUBLISHED 11:57 AM PT Feb. 09, 2021 PUBLISHED 11:57 AM PST Feb. 09, 2021
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Since the pandemic began, California’s Unemployment Development Department has paid billions of dollars to fraudsters who’ve applied for and received unemployment benefits, while thousands of jobless Californians continue to wait for their applications to be processed.
Now, California lawmakers are coming together to help reform the state’s troubled unemployment agency.
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State legislators have introduced a series of bills to prevent future fraud and speed up the growing backlog of unemployment claims at the EDD
The proposed legislation would establish an oversight advisory board to keep EDD accoun