The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry announced that $2.6 million in Schools-to-Work program grants is available to support new partnerships between schools and employers to create employment paths for students.

Pennsylvanians joined the rest of the nation with the “work from home” trend during the COVID-19 pandemic. But who bore the brunt of the cost for this unwanted necessity?

Pennsylvania businesses mostly held back on making large changes to their benefit plans during the pandemic, according to a survey of 100 organizations by Harrisburg employee benefit and investment advisory firm Conrad Siegel.

According to the most recent Waterman Hurst survey of the gatekeepers℠, a virtual community of top leaders, 95% of leaders surveyed have implemented new WFH policies in 2020. The gatekeepers reflected on the WFH experience and responded with the following:

The state Department of Labor & Industry reported that Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate rose 0.2 percentage points from December to 7.3 percent in January.

A high priority industry, construction and its trades is essential for economic growth and flourishing communities, employing necessary skilled trades like plumbing, electric, masonry or carpentry. The sector offers steady work, sustainable wages, benefits and long-lasting career opportunities.

Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry Acting Secretary Jennifer Berrier visited Lehigh Carbon Community College in Schnecksville Monday to promote a proposed job training program for “Near Completers.”

Whether it’s one too many virtual happy hours after work – meant to foster coworker camaraderie, or the day-after-day grind of back-to-back virtual meetings – it’s hard to find someone, anyone who hasn’t experienced “Zoom fatigue.”

The company will be bringing fulfillment operations to a 629,800-square-foot operation at 1611 Van Buren Road, which is currently the site of fulfillment operations for a clothing and apparel brand.

The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry said fraud is on the rise, with scammer upping their efforts to gather personal information of unsuspecting people to use in creating fake accounts to receive Pandemic Unemployment Assistance.