BOSTON (SHNS) – Four and a half years after COVID-19 upended the state’s economy, joblessness remains low, total employment has surpassed pre-pandemic levels, and the fund used to pay jobless benefits ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – The Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development (EOLWD) will be implementing a multi-phase plan to update the unemployment insurance (UI) system. The project is expected to ...

Editor’s note: The following commentary was written by leaders of business groups in Massachusetts,, including Diana Szynal, president of the Springfield Regional Chamber of Commerce; Rick Sullivan, ...

The Massachusetts unemployment rate crept up to 4.3% in February, once again trending in the wrong direction. That seems hard to believe when the most recent National Federation of Independent ...