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South Carolina’s Employment Situation December 2014 Unemployment Rate Drops; New Records Set in Employment and Labor Force The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined to 6.5 percent in December from November’s rate of 6.7 percent. The estimated number of South Carolinians wo...

On your mark, get set, go! But what happens after deployment? Modernization teams had been focusing on requirements, development and testing; now they are working defects, conducting training, and transitioning back into the new norm. Join this session as states discuss promising practices...

In This Issue: House, Senate Working to Complete FY 2015 Spending Plan to Avert Government Shutdown Elections: Governors, U.S. House and Senate Administration and Finance and Employment and Training Committees Hold Joint Meeting on WIOA Implementation with Key System Partners NASWA hosts E...

Salute to the Leadership 2014 Award Recipients: President's Award – Richard A. Hobbie, Ph.D., Executive Director, NASWA SEAL Award – The State of Florida with Special Recognition to the Honorable Rick Scott, Governor and the CareerSource Florida Network Eagle Award – Roger Bailie, Director...

South Carolina’s Employment Situation July 2014 Contact: Adrienne Fairwell: (803) 737-2623 afairwell@dew.sc.govUnemployment Rate Shifts UpwardIn July, South Carolina’s seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate increased to 5.7 percent from 5.3 percent in June, marking a shift upward after litt...

Recently it was announced that the debt North Carolina owed to the federal government to pay unemployment benefits had dropped from nearly $2.6 billion to $980 million. Now, the Division of Employment Security says they are hoping to pay that debt off early, perhaps as soon as August 2015....

The Division of Employment Security (DES) now has the legal authority to cease providing Appeals Hearing Notices to attorneys who pay for that information.On June 12, 2014, the North Carolina Court of Appeals ordered that the Preliminary Injunction that was entered on March 13, 2014 in Wak...

The Administration and Finance Committee will meet in Asheville, North Carolina, Thursday, November 21st at 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Friday, November 22nd, 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 pm. There is a $150 fee to attend this meeting.

A new mobile application will improve customer service to S.C. unemployment claimants and enhance fraud detection and prevention, the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW) announced today.The first of its kind offered by a state employment agency in the nation, DEW’s free iClai...

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...