unemployment

The U.S. Department of Labor gave over $2 million to Hawaiʻi’s unemployment insurance program as a part of the federal American Rescue Plan Act.

Hawaiʻi’s Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund has grown again after rapidly depleting as a result of the pandemic.

The state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations said that it will open its offices statewide beginning Dec. 1. The offices have been closed to walk-in and in-person service since March 2020.

Training is underway for the first cohort of the Remote Ready Hawai?i Pilot Program, which matches unemployed residents with remote work offered by…

Updated 3/5/21, 10:27 a.m.WASHINGTON — U.S. employers added a surprisingly robust 379,000 jobs last month in a sign the economy is strengthening as virus…

Using the a broad assessment of the labor market called the U6 unemployment rate, almost 20% of Hawaii workers are not fully employed.Hawaii’s economic…

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers sharply scaled back their hiring last month as the viral pandemic accelerated across the country, adding 245,000…

Updated 11/6/20, 10:48 a.m.WASHINGTON — Defying fears of another slowdown, U.S. businesses kept hiring at a solid pace in October yet there are signs they…

WASHINGTON — This spring, Magdalena Valiente was expecting her best year as a Florida-based concert promoter. Now, she wonders if the career she built…

Updated 10/2/20, 10:21 a.m.WASHINGTON — The final jobs report before Election Day a month from now showed hiring slowed in September even as the U.S.…