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Labor & Industry’s antiquated Unemployment Compensation computer system has two months to live. The state agency will launch its new system on June 8, acting secretary Jennifer Berrier announced at a virtual media briefing on Thursday afternoon. “We have been working with an archaic mainframe that has been outdated for years,” she said of the four-decade-old relic. “It’s amazing that it was able to handle the capacity it has had to deal with during the pandemic.” Berrier said the replacement system should be faster and more efficient, simplifying the filing proce...

Department of Labor & Industry Acting Secretary Jennifer Berrier announced Thursday that the department’s new unemployment compensation system will launch June 8.The new system – which will replace an obsolete 40-year-old mainframe legacy system – is expected to make it faster and simpler for Pennsylvanians to file claims."The new system will be easy to use, provide access to important information and streamline the unemployment claim filing process for workers, employers, unemployment program staff and third-party administrators," Berrier said. According to Berrier, the new UC sys...

KOAM March 2, 2021 11:00 AM Kaden Milner JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – People previously self-employed in Missouri may be eligible for an addition $100 supplemental payment under the Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation (MEUC) program. To qualify, the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations says individuals need to meet the following criteria. Earned at least $5,000 in self-employment income in the most recent taxable year before they applied for regular unemployment Submit documentation substantiating their self-employment income Must be receiving benefits...

Claimants need to be involved in improvements, Policy Matters Ohio testifies Ohio policymakers should make the unemployment compensation system more accessible to claimants so that Ohioans who have been laid off can obtain benefits on a timely basis. That was the key message in testimony delivered today by Zach Schiller, Policy Matters Ohio research director, to the Unemployment Compensation Modernization & Improvement Council. Created by the General Assembly, the council is to recommend how to improve administration of the UC system. While making the system more accessible may seem like an o...

Image Jason Howey Then COVID-19 hit, sending airline passenger traffic into a tailspin, reducing it by as much as 90% in the early days of the pandemic. The situation foreshadowed trouble ahead for Burke, which relied on commercial aerospace for 80% of its business at the time. "We never thought people would stop flying and we'd all be walking around with masks on," said Burke Aerospace President Brittany Isherwood. But instead of panicking, Isherwood and her team pivoted into more stable sectors. She hired a Washington, D.C., consulting firm that helped her figure out how to attract more de...