BATON ROUGE – The initial unemployment insurance claims for the week ending Mar. 21, 2020 rose to 72,438 from the week ending March 7, 2020 total of 1,698. For a comparison, during the week ending Mar…

BATON ROUGE – Preliminary data released today by the Bureau of Labor & Statistics (BLS) shows that Louisiana’s not seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased to 4.3 percent in February 2020. When…

BATON ROUGE - In response to the current COVID-19 event, under La. R.S. 23:184.1 the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) will begin issuing sixty (60) day blanket Employment Certificates for employer…

BATON ROUGE – To further assist Louisiana employers during the COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease) national emergency, the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) announced today that the deadline for first q…

BATON ROUGE – As concerns over the health and wellbeing of injured workers increase as a result of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC), Office of Workers’ Compensat…

BATON ROUGE – The initial unemployment insurance claims for the week ending Mar. 14, 2020 rose to 2,255 from the previous week’s total of 1,698. For a comparison, during the week ending March 16, 2019…

BATON ROUGE – Today, the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) announced that Louisiana employers will get a temporary deferral from paying their first quarter 2020 unemployment taxes. Employers will s…

BATON ROUGE – Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) Secretary Ava Dejoie will hold a press conference at LWC headquarters in Baton Rouge, La. Tuesday, March 17, at 2:30 p.m., to address common unemploy…

BATON ROUGE – Per revisions from Bureau of Labor & Statistics (BLS) annual benchmarking procedure, preliminary data released today shows that Louisiana’s not seasonally adjusted annualized unemploymen…

BATON ROUGE —The Louisiana Workforce Commission has announced the schedule for its 2020 monthly press releases of employment and unemployment data. The release of statewide nonfarm industry employm…

BATON ROUGE – The initial unemployment insurance claims for the week ending Mar. 7, 2020 rose to 1,698 from the previous week’s total of 1,509. For a comparison, during the week ending March 9, 2019, …

BATON ROUGE – The initial unemployment insurance claims for the week ending Feb. 29, 2020 dropped to 1,509 from the previous week’s total of 1,798. For a comparison, during the week ending March 2, 20…