Requires DOLWD to take measures to ensure State unemployment offices reopen immediately and remain open during and after public health emergency.

Summary

The bill orders the Commissioner of the Department of Labor and Workforce Development to take all steps needed to have every state unemployment office open by March 1 2022 and to keep them operating. It also mandates a written report to the governor and legislature within 90 days of the act’s effective date. If any office remains closed, the commissioner and senior staff face scheduled salary reductions, with the collected amounts placed in a new Treasury fund for unemployed workers.

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