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The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry held a news briefing to discuss Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance on Tuesday morning.
Lehigh Valley finishes 2020 with unemployment rate roughly flat for 3 months
Updated Feb 06, 2021;
The Lehigh Valley ended 2020 with an unemployment rate virtually unchanged for three months, the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry reported this week.
The good news is December’s preliminary unemployment rate of 7.1% was 9.6 percentage points lower than the April peak of 16.7% as the coronavirus economic shutdown took hold.
For three months beginning in October, the rate was about flat, starting at 7.2%, rising to 7.3% in November then shrinking again to 7.1% in December.
That’s for the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ Metropolitan Statistical Area covering Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton and Warren counties. Unemployment rates are adjusted for seasonal fluctuations like holiday hiring.
Acme Discontinues Instacart, Forms Own Shopping-Delivery Platform Acme’s move to establish and bring in-house the shopping system comes as Instacart said it expected to reduce its in-store shopping jobs by 1,900, according to a recent report in The Wall Street Journal By Natalie Kostelni | Philadelphia Business Journal •
Published February 5, 2021 •
Updated on February 5, 2021 at 9:15 am
Philadelphia Business Journal
Acme Markets Inc. is discontinuing its relationship with Instacart Inc. as its curbside pick-up partner and is establishing its own drive-up-and-go ordering system in its stores, the Philadelphia Business Journal reports.
The move will affect 60 Instacart employees working from 10 Acme stores throughout the Philadelphia area, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filed with the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. The permanent job cuts take effect Feb. 15.
Pennsylvania officials are urging caution after some residents fell victim to identity scams on a made-up Facebook page that closely resembled the one used by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry.The scammers pretended .