NEW JERSEY (PIX11) – New Jersey wants Federal employees assigned to the state to know they can apply for unemployment benefits during the federal government shutdown. “This Republican government ...

New Jersey workers who have exhausted their unemployment benefits are now eligible for 20 additional weeks of state unemployment starting this week, the state Labor Department announced Wednesday.

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in New Jersey dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to ...

Two major healthcare and life science companies in New Jersey announced plans for major layoffs.

NEW JERSEY (PIX11) — Out of a job to start the new year? In New Jersey, unemployment benefit rates are increasing to start 2026. Effective Thursday, the new maximum weekly benefit rate for ...