HARTFORD -- Nearly 100,000 employers in Connecticut are about to get sticker shock as the state mails annual tax bills to pay interest on its $433 million federal loan for unemployment benefits for ...

Union members and advocates gathered at the State Capitol in Hartford Saturday to bring attention to legislation to pay workers during contract negotiations.

Here's a look at how weekly unemployment claims changed in Connecticut last week compared with the week prior.

On June 23, 2025, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont vetoed the state legislature’s latest attempt to provide unemployment compensation benefits to strikers. The vetoed bill, entitled “An Act Concerning ...

CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism depends on reader support. Across Connecticut, the number of people employed or actively searching for a job has dropped in recent months — a possible ...

A bill that would add Connecticut to the short list of states providing jobless benefits to strikers won final passage Friday, an organized labor victory muted by Gov. Ned Lamont’s promised veto. The ...

The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits for the week ending Nov. 29 fell to 191,000 from the previous week’s ...

The state Department of Labor is raising the maximum unemployment insurance benefit rate from $504 per week to $869 per week beginning next Monday, and benefit checks will reflect the change the ...

A delayed jobs report shows U.S. employers added 119,00 jobs in September. Still, the unemployment rate inched up from 4.3% ...

From Justice Sotomayor's unanimous (and, I think, correct) opinion today in Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v. Wisconsin Labor & Indus. Rev. Comm'n: Wisconsin, like many other States, exempts certain ...