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 ...

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced details Thursday for the initial implementation of federal unemployment benefits in the CARES Act, the federal based coronavirus relief package that was ...

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, ...

Massachusetts is boosting the maximum period for collecting jobless benefits to 30 weeks — a move that will strain the state’s unemployment trust fund, which is quickly running low on money. The ...

BOSTON, Mass. (WWLP)– The Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance (DUA) has released information about the impact of a national unemployment fraud scam on Massachusetts claimants. The ...

Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo is the latest lawmaker to ask state officials to make the online unemployment application available in multiple languages, as attorneys, advocates and unions ...

On Thursday, April 9, 2020, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s administration announced the partial implementation of unemployment benefits in accordance with the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, ...

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