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Employers Fear Not – State Unemployment Agencies Are Implementing Methods for You to Report Employee Refusals to Return to Work Monday, January 11, 2021
On December 27, 2020, President Trump signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA) into law, providing a long-awaited additional round of economic relief related to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, this new law, which resumes Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), also known as the federal bump to state unemployment compensation, may be causing employers concern regarding the difficulty of recalling workers in light of the renewed FPUC.
Earlier in the pandemic, many employers found it difficult to motivate workers to return to work because some low-wage workers were receiving more money from unemployment compensation than their weekly wages. While the $600 FPUC supplement expired on July 31, 2020, the new federal law resumes FPUC for weeks of unemployment beginning after December 26,
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The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment
The Colorado Department of Labor and Employmentâs upgraded MyUI+ system came back online Sunday after several days of upgrades aimed at combining the federal and regular unemployment filing and claims systems and giving people on unemployment what the state hopes to be a more âstreamlinedâ and intuitive website and place to file claims.
The state’s long-awaited new unemployment insurance filing system is up and running, but only displaced Colorado workers who are receiving regular benefits can request weekly payments at this time.
Unless Congress acts, the $600 per week boost to unemployment benefits will be cut off at a time when a record number of Americans depend on that assistance..