WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s proposal to let businesses train the unemployed without having to pay them is “a no-go proposition” for at least one big employer. President Obama’s “Bridge to Work” plan would allow people on unemployment insurance to spend up to eight weeks as unpaid trainees at participating employers in hopes of learning [...]
WASHINGTON — If older job seekers have had aparticularly rough time finding work during the economic downturn, they apparently haven’t found any refuge at Texas Roadhouse restaurants. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Monday that it’s suing the Kentucky-based chain of more than 350 eateries for allegedly turning away older job applicants because of their [...]
A federal judge dismissed an age discrimination case from 18 former employees of the Dallas Morning News in March, repeatedly citing a recent Supreme Court ruling that increased the burden on older workers to prove they’ve been treated unfairly. Jack Gross feels bad about it. “It personally concerns me that I was somehow involved in [...]
WASHINGTON — Older workers are less likely to lose their jobs than younger workers, but once they do, they’re more than twice as likely to be out of work for 99 weeks or longer. Among jobless workers younger than 35, 8.1 percent had been out of work for 99 weeks. But 16.3 percent of jobless [...]
After more than two years of unemployment, Francis Timothy Coleman of Bethlehem, Pa., landed a job as a forklift operator this summer. “We all know times are tough, but things are certainly getting a little better, and that’s what you work toward,” said Coleman, who goes by Tim. Times were toughest for Coleman, 42, when, as [...]
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) has admitted that she has no evidence backing her claim that half of job applicants at a local government facility flunked a drug test. She’d used the claim to push for requiring the jobless to pass a drug test to be eligible for benefits. “I’ve never felt like I [...]
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) has admitted that she has no evidence backing her claim that half of job applicants at a local government facility flunked a drug test. She’d used the claim to push for requiring the jobless to pass a drug test to be eligible for benefits. “I’ve never felt like I [...]
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration says that if Congress fails to reauthorize extended unemployment insurance, 6 million people will lose benefits next year. Starting in January, laid-off workers will be ineligible for further federal benefits after they’ve used up 26 weeks of state benefits (some states now provide fewer than 26 weeks). The average unemployed [...]
WASHINGTON — While major parts of President Barack Obama’s jobs plan are being met with hostility on Capitol Hill, at least one element was welcomed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), chairman of the House Budget Committee, on Sunday. That’s the president’s plan to allow businesses to hire the long-term unemployed for a limited period of [...]
Extended unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless are not a major cause of the high U.S. unemployment rate, according to a new study that comes as lawmakers debate whether to keep extended benefits beyond their slated January expiration. Many conservatives have argued that extended unemployment benefits encourage the jobless to sit on the couch instead [...]
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