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Commission offers employment resources for women
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Tulsa Business Staff2/23/2010 The City of Tulsa Mayor's Commission on the Status of Women is partnering with The Tulsa Women's Foundation to present an Employment Resource Fair for women from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. March 9 at OSU-Tulsa, 700 N. Greenwood Ave. The free, public event is part of the Commission's new initiative, "LEAD: Lifting, Encouraging and Directing ? Women in Transition."
The purpose of the Employment Resource Fair is to offer information to women who have been impacted by poor economic conditions, suffered loss of employment or are experiencing forced re-entry into the work force due to loss of employment by a provider, as well as women who desire to start a business or feel the need to improve their skills to maintain current employment in light of layoffs.
Numerous area organizations and agencies will be on hand providing information to address these needs. Topics include career counseling, education, job searching, networking, business startups, health and child care.
Two hourlong sessions will be from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Room 150. OSU Career Counseling and local nonprofit Dress for Success will present from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. From 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., Jean Kelley, author and owner of Jean Kelley Leadership Consulting, will present. Kelley is former owner of Jean Kelley Personnel with 35 years of experience in the areas of job placement and leadership training. Workshops will address self improvement in the areas of resume building, interviewing, business etiquette and image.
There is no cost associated with these sessions, but registration is requested. To register, contact Darlene Hall at 918-596-2461 or e-mail dhall@cityoftulsa.org.
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Tulsa Business Journal - 02/23/2010 |
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Oklahoma Bill Would Help Part-Time Workers
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ? A state senator has filed legislation that would allow part-time employees to receive unemployment insurance payments.
Sen. Jim Wilson of Tahlequah said Monday his bill would authorize the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission to create a voluntary Shared Work Unemployment Compensation Program.
Wilson says the bill would allow employers to cut back hours without laying people off. Those whose hours have been reduced would be able to supplement their income with unemployment payments.
He says fewer people would lose their jobs under the plan and wages would be kept up at a level higher than a part-time salary.
Employers would have to submit written shared work plans to the commission to participate. They would also have to agree to furnish reports on the plan's operation.
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NewsOK - 01/13/2010 |
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Oklahoma jobless compensation extended by new law
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About 7,000 Oklahomans whose jobless benefits have ended are expected to be eligible for extended unemployment compensation under federal legislation that went into effect Sunday.
The Worker, Homeownership and Business Assistance Act of 2009 changes the maximum number of weeks that a person can collect Emergency Unemployment Compensation Tier 2 benefits from 13 weeks to 14 weeks, and creates Tier 3 benefits for those who use up Tier 2 claims.
"This is really good news for a lot of people," said Oklahoma Employment Security Commission spokesman John Carpenter.
The commission will mail all current and former Tier 2 claimants a determination informing them of eligibility and instructions for filing. Someone who has been paid the final week of Tier 2 benefits will then be able to apply for Tier 3, Carpenter said.
All Tier 3 claims will be backdated so that those eligible will receive benefits for all weeks in which they were entitled, said Jerry Pectol, the commission's director of unemployment insurance. Filing instructions will be mailed to addresses on record, so it's critical for those filing to make sure the agency has a current address, he said.
"This extension will help quite a few Oklahomans," Pectol said.
"We ask that our claimants be patient as we implement these changes. We want to assure them that everyone will receive all of the benefits for which they are eligible."
The state has been paying out record amounts of benefits this year, Carpenter said, and while the number of new applicants has dropped a bit in the past couple of months, there has been a rise in those receiving extended benefits.
"That number just keeps going up and up," indicating that more and more people are going through the system "and are not able to find a job," he said. "It's brutal out there."
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The Daily Oklahoman - 11/16/2009 |
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