Monday morning musings for workplace watchers
Walsh’s Unemployment Decision | Federal Contractor Enforcement Challenge
Ben Penn: The U.S. Labor Department faces a decision that will reveal the Biden administration’s willingness to have the federal government step up its role in paying unemployment benefits to laid-off workers, rather than let states shoulder most of the load.
The department, which oversees the federal-state jobless-aid system, must determine how it will distribute $2 billion in unemployment insurance administrative funding that Congress provided in the American Rescue Plan.
The decision has taken on an added dimension amid pressure from worker advocates and Sen.