Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry Acting Secretary Jennifer Berrier gave an update on the state's new unemployment compensation system, wh.
Around 180 miners at the Monongalia County Coal Mine in Greene County received notice of permanent layoff from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry.
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The Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted to terminate the commonwealth’s disaster declaration, part of an ongoing GOP effort to peel back pandemic measures put in place by Gov. Tom Wolf.
The Wolf Administration has already lifted many of the limitations Republicans have railed against, for example business occupancy limitations which were lifted on Memorial Day. But the resolution would reinstate work search requirements for unemployment compensation recipients ahead of the Wolf administration’s timeline. It would also stop the administration from entering into no-bid contracts during emergencies.
“[Pennsylvanians’] lives have been upended, their livelihoods destroyed in some cases, and their liberties interrupted by the inconsistent and unilateral uses of power,” said House Majority leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Lebanon), after the resolution’s passage. “This emergency is over.”
EAS Carpenters Host Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Open House
Carpenters Union Announces Opening of the Duncansville Training Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, UNITED STATES
Duncansville, PA, June 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) The Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters opened the doors today to the recently expanded Training Center in Duncansville, Pennsylvania. In attendance today was Eastern District Vice President William Waterkotte, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, Jennifer Berrier and Senate President Pro Temp Jake Corman and other Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia elected officials. This investment by our union and our signatory contractors of $3.5 Million is an investment in education and training opportunities in Central PA, said Executive Secretary-Treasurer, William Sproule of the Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters.
Gov. Tom Wolf called the vote “a discouraging development” following a “productive meeting with the legislature” after the May 18 primary, when voters backed curtailing his powers.