department of workforce development

Instead of layoffs, work-share lets companies reduce employees’ hours and have the state pay affected workers a portion of their unemployment benefits relative to hours lost. A bill to create a work-share program in Indiana passed a Senate committee Wednesday.

A bill to effectively ban private companies from enforcing COVID-19 vaccine mandates cleared its first hurdle at the Statehouse Thursday.

Indiana’s unemployment rate for September was 4 percent, dropping very slightly from the month before. Meanwhile, the head of the Indiana Department of…

Hoosiers appealing issues with their unemployment benefits may still have to wait about six or seven months before they can get a hearing. Before the…

Federal unemployment benefit programs, designed to help workers financially survive the pandemic, are now over. While states can use CARES Act money to…

Indiana’s unemployment rate remained unchanged between June and July, standing at 4.1 percent, but some areas are seeing job recovery faster than…

Federal unemployment benefits are back on in Indiana. State officials said they’ve already paid 25,000 people on the first day while they also gave…