Articles Tagged: Iowa Workforce Development

Erroneous payments were made during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic when unemployment claims surged as businesses closed

Remarks from two state agency directors came at The Gazette's virtual Iowa Ideas conference, which continues Friday.

Higher interest rates increase the cost of doing business, which leads to a slowdown in all aspects of business, including hiring, and sometimes leading to layoffs.

Iowa Workforce Development recently announced plans to buy a 32-foot-long, custom-built bus to deliver workforce assistance to all corners of the state.

Also, the state workforce agency has created a new division for working with businesses on employment issues

Unemployment insurance rates for Iowa employers will drop to a 24-year low, beginning in 2023, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced this week.

Iowa’s seasonally adjusted jobless rate dropped to 2.6 percent in June, Iowa Workforce Development said Thursday.

Federal regulators are fining Bank of America $225 million for freezing the unemployment benefits of thousands of jobless individuals in Iowa and 11 other states during the pandemic.

On June 26, the IowaWorks.gov website went down due to a cyberattack aimed at Geographic Solutions Inc., or GSI, the Florida-based company that maintains the site.

Iowa’s job search website remains inoperative, more than two weeks after the system fell victim to a cyberattack.

The state awarded more than $3.6 million across a spectrum of 88 businesses — from veterinary services and plumbers to utilities and the Iowa Department of Corrections — to create or expand apprenticeships.

State says the outage does not affect any new or current unemployment claims

Iowa Workforce Development’s IowaWORKS.gov web site, which developed an outage on Sunday, was expected to remain down through Tuesday

Iowans forced out of work for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine are now beginning to collect unemployment benefits due to a new law approved in October.

GOP says changes needed to modernize, put focus on re-employment. The legislationm they say, updates a system from the 1930s when unemployment compensation was the sole safety net for out-of-work Iowans.