Tag: R.I. Department of Labor and Training
6 R.I. residents charged in alleged unemployment fraud schemes
PROVIDENCE – A federal grand jury has returned four indictments charging six Rhode Island residents with allegedly executing schemes to defraud unemployment agencies in...
R.I. unemployment rate declines to 5.2% in Sept.
PROVIDENCE – The unemployment rate in Rhode Island was 5.2% in September, a decline from 5.8% in August and 10.9% one year prior, the...
Builders: Have work, will train
Although the COVID-19 pandemic kept many Rhode Islanders close to home for much of 2020, Pariseault Builders Inc. didn’t slow down.
With construction deemed an...
R.I. unemployment rate edges upward in August
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island's economic recovery appears to have stagnated in August.
The state unemployment rate was 5.8% in August, an increase from 5.7% in...
Getting the unemployed to take unfilled jobs isn’t so simple
About 45,000 Rhode Islanders have lost their federal unemployment benefits, but prodding them back into the workforce to ease a labor shortage in some...
We Make RI manufacturing training fair to help unemployed reenter workforce
CRANSTON – Manufacturing training organization We Make RI will host an in-person training fair on Wednesday.
Workforce development organizations that will be on hand include...
UNCLEAR CARNAGE: Just how badly has pandemic hurt R.I.’s small businesses?
Heather Wall still gets emotional when she drives past the empty storefront on Frenchtown Road in North Kingstown.
The darkened space in Hunt River Commons...
Under R.I. equity measure, firms may need wage audit
Rhode Island’s new pay equity law is still more than a year away from taking effect, but Ocean State businesses should be taking steps...
R.I. unemployment rate ticks down to 5.8% in July
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island unemployment rate in July was 5.8%, a slight decline from 5.9% one month prior and a drop from 14%...
Unchartered training: How does region build workforce for new wind sector?
Toiling hundreds of feet above the open ocean, sometimes amid stormy weather and battering waves, technicians in the offshore wind industry need not only...
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