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CHARLESTON — West Virginians receiving unemployment benefits are unlikely to experience a gap in payments as WorkForce West Virginia officials work with the U
For The Intelligencer CHARLESTON — The West Virginia House of Delegates approved a bill Wednesday to prioritize economic development and tourism in the state after a lengthy debate over whether the bill was needed or not. House Bill 2019, elevating the West Virginia Development Office and the Division of Tourism to cabinet-level positions, passed the House 86-13. The bill heads to the state Senate. HB 2019 would rename the WVDO to the Department of Economic Development and the Division of Tourism to the Department of Tourism. The leaders of both new departments would be subject to confirmat...
Staff writer CHARLESTON — The West Virginia House of Delegates approved a bill Wednesday to prioritize economic development and tourism in the state after a lengthy debate over whether the bill was needed. House Bill 2019, elevating the West Virginia Development Office and the Division of Tourism to cabinet-level positions, passed the House 86-13. The bill heads to the state Senate. HB 2019 would rename the WVDO to the Department of Economic Development and the Division of Tourism to the Department of Tourism. The leaders of both new departments would be subject to confirmation by the state...
The state agency responsible for helping West Virginians find jobs and collect unemployment benefits is in an employment crunch of its own, according to a legislative audit. In a yearlong examination of WorkForce West Virginia, legislative auditors found that employee misclassification was ârampant,â leading to a loss of $824,000 to $1.1 million in personal income tax revenue from 2014 to 2018. During each of those years, the U.S. Department of Labor gave West Virginia a âfailâ rating for its efforts in detecting employee misclassification. This refers to whether a worker ...
Over next few weeks, West Virginia will expand vaccination effort to retailers, plant workers, government offices and more By December 20, 2020 - 12:59 pm Joe Peal, retired colonel and chief of joint staff for the West Virginia National Guard, leads the effort to organize the state’s vaccine rollout. Last week, as vaccines rolled out to some of the state’s most vulnerable residents, he could breathe a brief sigh of relief. But a lot of challenging work remains. “This is the week we started saving lives. From March to this point we’ve been fighting and trying to stay afloat,” Peal ...