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Florida’s July Employment Figures ReleasedCONTACT: DEO Communications (850) 617-5600TALLAHASSEE – Florida’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.2 percent in July 2014, unchanged from the June 2014 rate of 6.2 percent, and down 1.1 percentage points from 7.3 percent a year ago. Ther...

In This Issue: Senate Passes Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Senators Reed and Heller Reintroduce EUC Reauthorization Registration for the 78th NASWA Annual Conference Now Available! USDOL Awards $155 million in WIA Dislocated Worker National Reserve Funds to Implement Job Trainin...

The world of Public Employment Services is changing rapidly. Technological developments are creating new possibilities to collect and analyze data that have the potential to enable Public Employment Services to better serve their clients and improve performance. The objective of this panel...

This edition of Workforce Bulletin contains articles including:Extension of Emergency Unemployment Compensation Passes U.S. SenateOn Monday, April 7, the Senate passed the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2014 (H.R. 3979), a five month retroactive extension of the Emerg...

This letter from Robert N. Sechen, General Counsel, Florida Department of Economic Opportunity to Naomi Barry-Perez, Director, Civil Rights Center on April 10, 2014 is a requests for DEO to agree to a “final” draft agreement by April 10, 2014.

This breakout will delve into how state workforce agencies are implementing crisis communications during disaster recovery efforts, including highlights of what worked well and learning lessons on what did not. This session is the kick-off to a series of NASWA webinars that will be held fo...

In many states, Labor Market Information (LMI) shops are evolving into broader data shops that provide several tiers of service to multiple workforce units and state agencies. At this workshop a prominent state administrator and three LMI directors who are leaders in national LMI initiativ...

This PDF contains the Minutes from the Equal Opportunity meeting held on April 2-3, 2014 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

This PDF contains the Minutes from the A&F Committee Meeting held on March 27- 28, 2014 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

This report analyzes several types of recent changes to state Unemployment Compensation (UC) programs. Three categories of UC state law issues are considered: (1) changes in the duration of state UC unemployment benefits; (2) changes in the UC weekly benefit amount; and (3) the enactment i...