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Entitled to Unemployment Insurance? ( August 2008 )
Usually, you are eligible for unemployment insurance payments if it wasn't your fault that you lost your job. For example, it isn't your "fault" if you lost your job in a layoff. -
Huge Cost Of Unemployment Benefits Poses Dilemma For All Louisiana Employers ( March 2006 )
Louisiana faces an unprecedented level of unemployment benefits paid as a result of the impact from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This article discusses the state's liberally-granted unemployment benefits and how the price tag could prove quite painful for all Louisiana employers. In a relatively typical week before the disasters, the Louisiana Department Of Labor paid less than 9,000 unemployment claims and under $4 million in benefits. -
Pennsylvania Governor Rendell Signs Legislation Allowing Non-Attorneys to Represent Corporate Employers in Unemployment Compensation Proceedings ( August 2005 )
In February, 2005, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court issued a decision holding that corporations could not be represented by non-attorneys in administrative proceedings involving unemployment compensation claims. Harkness v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, No. 150 C.D. 2004 (Pa. Commw. Feb. 3, 2005). As a result of the Harkness decision, company employees could appear and testify at unemployment compensation hearings without legal representation, but they were not permitted to ask questions of witnesses, make objections, or deliver legal arguments. -
Reversing a long-standing practice in Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania held in a 5-2 decision that corporations may not be represented by non-lawyers at unemployment compensation hearings.
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What You Should Know About Reemployment Compensation ( October 2000 )
Unemployment compensation, now known as reemployment insurance, is a system for providing benefits to people who ha. -
States Now May Provide Unemployment Compensation To New Parents ( July 2000 )
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has adopted a new interpretation of the existing federal unemployment c. -
Postmark Your Appeal ( April 2000 )
A party to a lawsuit can easily lose a claim or an appeal by missing a filing deadline. Recently, an employer who f. -
Recent Employment-Related Legislative Changes ( July 1999 )
The recently concluded First Regular Session of the 119th Maine Legislature resulted in a number of statutory changes relating to employment law. -
Pennslyvania Supreme Court Rules that Unemployment Compensation Referee's Factual Findings can be Re-Tried in a Civil Trial ( June 1999 )
On June 16, 1998, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court determined that the factual findings of unemployment compensation . -
Virginia Worker's Compensation Law Update ( June 1999 )
Workers' Compensation; Duty to Furnish Medical Attention. The Workers' Compensation Act was amended to allow emplo.