Grand Rapids Business Journal
Courtesy West Michigan Works!
A local workforce development agency is hosting a virtual construction hiring event and offering other resources in celebration of National Women in Construction Week.
West Michigan Works! said it will observe Women in Construction Week next week with a virtual construction hiring event from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday and by publishing two educational videos highlighting the West Michigan construction industry.
Job seekers can register for 15-minute phone conversations with construction employers with immediate openings. Event registration is open until 5 p.m. Monday. The job fair is open to all job seekers.
Former UIA director gets $85,000 in separation agreement with the agency
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and last updated 2021-03-03 17:24:39-05
LANSING, Mich. â The former director of Michiganâs Unemployment Insurance Agency got more than $85,000 when he resigned on Nov. 5.
Documents from the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity show Steve Gray was paid $85,872.56 to cover Nov. 6, 2020 through June 1, 2021.
Both parties agreed they will not make any statements or bash the reputation of the other.
State Representative Matt Hall questioned Gray several times in the past about the agency and thinks the payment amounts to hush money. We thought we knew the whole story once, said Hall, and then that report came out showing they disabled fraud detection tools costing hundreds of millions of dollars to taxpayers in fraudulent payments to criminals. Now, with this hush agreement, it sure looks like there s a lot more here, and I think people deserve answers because so many p
Some business groups across the state are urging Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration to not extend pandemic-related restrictions on in-person office work that are set to expire next month, claiming that
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