STATE PLANS TO REENACT UNEMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS IN JULY By Hometown1
Acting State Labor & Industry Secretary Jennifer Berrier announced yesterday that beginning July 18
th, jobless workers will have to prove they applied for two jobs per week in order to receive unemployment benefits, and must also register with PA Careerlink. Those two requirements were suspended last year because of the pandemic.
Some industry representatives, however, want the requirements to start earlier. The president of the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association testified at a hearing of the House Labor & Industry Committee yesterday that there are about 60,000 trucking jobs available, paying as much as 20 dollars per hour, but they are being told by prospective drivers that they make as much staying home as they would if they were working. Rebecca Oyler also told the committee that Pennsylvania needs to do away with the extra $300 per week the federal government is paying the unemployed, as
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Beginning July 18, Pennsylvania’s unemployed workers again will have to prove they applied for two jobs per week to continue to receive jobless benefits, a state labor official said Monday.
Unemployed workers also must register for job search services with the PA CareerLink offices. The requirements were suspended last year as part of Gov. Tom Wolf’s measures to limit the spread of covid, and the state’s CareerLink offices were closed to the public for the same reason.
Updated: 10:54 PM EDT May 4, 2021
YORK, Pa. According to the national tanker truck carriers association, about 20% to 25% of tanker trucks are parked due to lack of qualified drivers. That means fewer tankers transporting fuel to gas stations.
The biggest issue the Pennsylvania motor truck association says it’s seeing is finding and keeping those qualified drivers.
The association says there are two main concerns they saw this past year that really made things more challenging for the industry. The two trends that I think we saw come together last year were the pandemic actually slowed training and testing, said the President of The Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association Rebecca Oyler.
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