BATON ROUGE – The initial unemployment insurance claims for the week ending Mar 23, 2019 dropped to 1,619 from the previous week’s total of 1,661. For a comparison, during the week ending Mar 24, 2018…

BATON ROUGE – Data released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) shows that February 2019 not seasonally adjusted nonfarm employment increased by 5,600 jobs to 1,971,100 from February 2018. Thi…

BATON ROUGE – February 2019 data released today by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics shows that seasonally adjusted nonfarm employment increased by 5,900 jobs from February 2018 to 1,980,100. This is…

BATON ROUGE – The initial unemployment insurance claims for the week ending Mar 16, 2019 rose to 1,661 from the previous week’s total of 1,584. For a comparison, during the week ending Mar 17, 2018, 1…

BATON ROUGE – The initial unemployment insurance claims for the week ending Mar 9, 2019 dropped to 1,584 from the previous week’s total of 1,674. For a comparison, during the week ending Mar 10, 2018,…

BATON ROUGE – Registration remains open for the 2019 Louisiana Labor Summit, sponsored by the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) and the Louisiana Human Resources Development Institute (LHRDI), on M…

BATON ROUGE – Per revisions from Bureau of Labor & Statistics (BLS) annual benchmarking procedure, Louisiana seasonally adjusted nonfarm employment added jobs in January 2019 for the eleventh straight…

BATON ROUGE – The initial unemployment insurance claims for the week ending Mar 2, 2019 dropped to 1,674 from the previous week’s total of 1,784. For a comparison, during the week ending Mar 3, 2018, …

BATON ROUGE – The initial unemployment insurance claims for the week ending Feb 23, 2019 rose to 1,784 from the previous week’s total of 1,672. For a comparison, during the week ending Feb 24, 2018, 1…