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State officials reported Tuesday that November saw a smaller labor force and more people unemployed than the month before. In figures released by the ...

New York state lost at least $11 billion due to unemployment fraud during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an audit released Tues...

ALBANY (TNS) — A former state Department of Labor employee pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges Thursday, admitting that he and a co-worker used...

ALBANY (TNS) — A year ago, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo declared that New York was facing a state of emergency caused by gun violence. The administration bill...

ALBANY (TNS) — Two state Department of Labor workers allegedly conducted a massive identity fraud scheme to steal more than $1.6 million in unemployme...

ALBANY (TNS) — Upstate minimum wage workers will see an income boost starting Jan. 1. The state Department of Labor announced Monday that the minimum ...

ALBANY — New York might be on track to exhaust its $2.1 billion pandemic relief fund for undocumented workers, just weeks after it began accepting app...

Local unemployment dropped slightly in August, state labor officials reported Tuesday. The Department of Labor reported that Cattaraugus County saw an...

ALBANY (TNS) — New York’s Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund has roughly $9 billion in debt, more than double what the state took four years to repay f...

Local unemployment rates crept up slightly in June, state labor officials reported. Cattaraugus County saw its unemployment rise 0.4 points in June, t...

Area unemployment rates remained lower than the state and nation as a whole in May, the state Department of Labor reported this week. Cattaraugus Coun...

ALBANY — Sen. George Borrello and fellow Republicans in the State Senate called on the Legislature and Cuomo administration to “fix multiple issues th...

ALBANY (TNS) — The state Department of Labor last year distributed more than $114 million in unemployment and federal relief benefits to New Yorkers i...

Jobless claims rose across the area in December, but local unemployment rates remain lower than the rest of the region and state. Cattaraugus County s...

ALBANY (TNS) — New York’s Department of Labor says it’s fixed a problem that kept people who are collecting unemployment insurance from certifying for...

Area unemployment rates rose slightly in October, the state Department of Labor reported this week. In Cattaraugus County, unemployment rose by 0.4% t...

Local unemployment is back below 6% across the region for the first time in half a year, the state reports. The New York Department of Labor reported ...

WASHINGTON (TNS ) — Federal unemployment data shows the number of New Yorkers telling the government they’ve been out of work for more than six months...