Robert Asaro-Angelo

With May quarterly payments in the bank, the state was able to temporarily pay down its unemployment borrowing. It won't' be fully solvent until mid-2024.

Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo was grilled by senators at a three-hour hearing Thursday.

Updated federal guidance expands the number of cases where states don't have to recover overpaid COVID jobless benefits, so long as fraud wasn't involved.

Eighty-eight weeks of unemployment benefits triggered by the coronavirus pandemic are coming to a close.

Unemployed workers aren't required to be looking for work during the pandemic – but they must still certify they're ready, willing and available to work.

Status messages about claims being pending or unpayable would gain details about the specific reason they're paused, under an upgrade planned in state budget.

State labor officials said this weekend that payments would begin going out to the 75,000 people who had lost their benefits extension.

A week after the state Labor Department started taking complaints, officials have received nearly 380 reports of workplace violations of the governor's executive order.

Senators question state labor commissioner on the pandemic response by the unemployment system but are sympathetic to the surge swamping an old system.

Starting Monday, Aug. 10, the Labor Department expands virtual services to its One-Stop Career Centers.

Employees in New Jersey who feel their health is at risk when at work due to a lack of COVID-19 protections can refuse to work and still receive unemployment benefits.

Signs of stabilization: Initial claims fell to a nine-week low and continued claims declined – substantially, in fact – for the first time during the pandemic.