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Unemployment Insurance (UI) Overpayment Guidance
Labor and Commerce Secretaries Stress Apprenticeships
National Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship | Nominations
Sought
Direct Care Workers Legislation Introduced
H-2A Program | Herding or Livestock Production
Applications
Forced Labor | Nitrile Glove Imports Seized
Upcoming Congressional Hearing
Biden Administration Labor Leadership
Updates. This week, the Senate Health, Education,
Labor, & Pensions (HELP) Committee scheduled a
business meeting for May 12 to vote on the following
nominations:
Jennifer Abruzzo to serve as General
Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB);
Seema Nanda to serve as Solicitor for the
U.S. Department of Labor; and
Jocelyn Samuels, for a new term on the U.S.
Unemployment Insurance (UI) Overpayment Guidance
Labor and Commerce Secretaries Stress Apprenticeships
National Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship | Nominations Sought
Direct Care Workers Legislation Introduced
H-2A Program | Herding or Livestock Production Applications
Forced Labor | Nitrile Glove Imports Seized
Upcoming Congressional Hearing
Biden Administration Labor Leadership Updates. This week, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions (HELP) Committee scheduled a business meeting for May 12 to vote on the following nominations:
Jennifer Abruzzo to serve as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB);
Seema Nanda to serve as Solicitor for the U.S. Department of Labor; and
Jocelyn Samuels, for a new term on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Acknowledging that states need time to modify their computer systems to accommodate the extensions and modifications, the Department expects many states will need until the middle of April or later to implement the new provisions and begin notifying individuals, wrote Suzan LeVine, principal deputy assistant secretary at the Labor Department s Employment and Training Administration.
Prior rounds of additional pandemic aid for the jobless also took weeks and sometimes months to disburse, depending on the state.
The $900 billion relief measure signed by former President Donald Trump in December extended benefits for the long-term unemployed to March 14. Others who hadn t exhausted their maximum aid allotment can continue receiving federal benefits until April 11.