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New unemployment claims in Virginia were down again last week, and continued claims are also trending downward. Both are good signs of recovery as the Commonwealth claws its way out of the economic slump that came from the COVID-19 shutdown.
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The Virginia Employment Commission said today that more than 12,000 cases involving unemployment benefits claimants refusing to return to work are pending administrative review.
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The Virginia Employment Commission reports today that there were 27,186 new initial unemployment claims filed last week, a slight dip from the week before.
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Chief Justice John Roberts and Trump appointee Neil Gorsuch joined the four liberals on the U.S. Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision ruling that the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
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Congresswoman Elaine Luria participated in a House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces hearing to hear perspectives from outside the Navy about future force structure requirements and ship capacity and employment.
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The total number of Virginians who have filed initial unemployment claims during Gov. Ralph Northam’s COVID-19 shutdown is approaching the 800,000 mark.
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Shutdowns of businesses across the nation due to COVID-19 have caused a massive share of the U.S. workforce to become unemployed.
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The total number of initial unemployment claims for the first 10 weeks of Gov. Ralph Northam’s COVID-19 lockdown are now more than 100,000 higher than the total filed during the Great Recession.
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Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose 7.3 percentage points in April to 10.6 percent, an increase of 7.7 percent above the rate from a year ago.
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Another 44,699 initial unemployment claims were filed in Virginia over the past week, pushing the total number of initial claims to just under 18 percent of the pre-lockdown, nonfarm employment.
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