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Workers denied pandemic-era jobless benefits are still struggling with debt and stress -- collateral damage as they fight a state employment agency on edge about fraud and an appeals system facing a ‘historic’ backlog. Story from @CalMatters.

Workers denied pandemic-era jobless benefits are still struggling with debt and stress — collateral damage as they fight a state employment agency on edge about fraud and an appeals system facing a ‘historic’ backlog. What happens next with these and other legal battles will help decide who pays for a multi-billion-dollar debacle three years in the making.

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The Saudi National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking has identified the act of forcing the employee to work for long hours and non-payment of wages as forms and indicators of forced labor and trafficking in persons. This was revealed by sources at the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development.