AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, FileNew Jersey saw more than 2,300 layoffs last month
AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, FileNew Jersey saw more than 2,300 layoffs last month

'We’ve hired hundreds of staff throughout the pandemic, with more on the way'

NJ labor department to reopen some One-Stop Career Centers, but not for walk-ins

Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo said there is a backlog of 10,800 claims

Frustration over backlog of unemployment claims

The state has received an additional $42.7 million in federal funds for rent relief

Sen. Tom Kean Jr. says the last thing NJ business owners need now is a tax increase

Business coalition wants Murphy administration to use federal relief funds to replenish the state’s Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund

New Jersey-based ADP says private companies across the country hired 978,000 new workers last month

CEO of New Jersey Chamber of Commerce proposes another $2 billion in funding for small businesses

There are lots of suggestions for how NJ should spend its lastest round of COVID-relief funding

Gov. Phil Murphy nixes bill that business groups say would have cut red tape

Sen. Michael Testa says businesses in his area are hiring, as companies get ready for the summer tourism season

The State Labor Department says it received nearly 20,000 new claims in the most recent week. Nationally, jobless claims also rose.

Stockton University says it will cover the balance of tuition and fees after grants, starting this fall, for eligible first-year and transfer students with household ...

More than 10,000 New Jersey residents filed first-time unemployment claims in the most recent week

New programming is in place to speed up review of unemployment claims hitting the one-year mark.

Sen. Bob Menendez called the plans to send eligible taxpayers a $1,400 stimulus check a lifeline.

Booker says with interest, the $1,000 investment grows to $50,000 by the time the newborn turns 18.

Each week hundreds of thousands of workers across the U.S. are still forced to file new unemployment claims. But in New Jersey, there was a ...