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Under federal law, there is the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) which sets forth certain requirements for businesses who are closing locations and/or proceeding...

Under federal law, there is the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act WARN which sets forth requirements for businesses who are closing locations and/or proceeding with large-scale reductions in force. California has separate WARN regulations- Cal-WARN.

State leaders say a program to provide bonuses to Montanans who returned to the workforce is likely to pay out only a third of what was allocated for it. A state commission has now recommended reallocating $10 million of that money to other programs.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A commission created to allocate federal COVID-19 relief funding to help stabilize Montana's economy recommended Wednesday that the governor allocate $4 million to help recruit new medical workers to the state.

State leaders say a program to provide bonuses to Montanans who returned to the workforce is likely to pay out only a third of what was allocated for it. A state commission has now recommended reallocating $10 million of that money to other programs.

State leaders say a program to provide bonuses to Montanans who returned to the workforce is likely to pay out only a third of what was allocated for it.

State leaders say a program to provide bonuses to Montanans who returned to the workforce is likely to pay out only a third of what was allocated for it. A state commission has now recommended reallocating $10 million of that money to other programs.

While local governments and agencies around the state have applied for $13.7 million more in water and sewer projects than the Legislature allocated earlier this year, the demand for rental assistance and a return-to-work bonus has lagged behind available funding. But administrators say theyre looking at other ways to use the rental money and that the worker bonuses still need time to play out. The state said Wednesday 320 applications have been made for water and sewer grants totaling $919.7 m...

The state says it will pay all legitimate claims, but only benefits accrued through June 26.

I’ve got firm figures now on the size of the federal unemployment benefits that Governor Hutchinson, under pressure from the hospitality industry, is giving up in hopes of forcing people to go back to low-pay, dead-end jobs whether they have child care or not. The Workforce Services Division provided figures today on the amount paid in the federal pandemic benefit programs that will end June 26, 10 weeks before the benefits expire. Advertisement The figures allow us to say what those benef...