Unemployment Insurance -- Financing -- Funding Strategies

Typically, states use one of two primary strategies to fund their unemployment insurance programs. The first, advance funding, relies on the establishment and maintenance of a sizeable fund out of which unemployment benefits can be paid. The second, known as pay-as-you-go, utilizes a system by which employers are called upon to pay into the fund on an as needed basis. Both systems are currently in use, and both have their pros and cons.

Appealing a General Schedule Classification

The General Schedule (GS) Classification System is the scheme under which "white collar" federal competitive civil service jobs are classified for pay purposes. Employees placed into the same "class" of employment are also entitled to be treated similarly with regard to promotion, hiring, and other personnel decisions.

Unemployment Benefits - Protest -- General Issues

When an unemployed worker files a claim for unemployment compensation and the unemployment compensation office determines that the claimant has had sufficient employment to qualify him for the receipt of benefits, a notice of his claim is mailed to the last employer for which the claimant worked and to each employer in the claimant's base period. It is often quite possible for a claimant to have more than one base-period employer. The number of base period employers varies according to the number of jobs the claimant had during that time-period designated as the base period. The last employing unit, that is the last or most recent employer, is the employer for whom the claimant was last employed when he quit or was terminated from his employment.

Medical Records and the Americans

with Disabilities Act of 1990)

Hatch Act for State and Local Employees

Prompted by a concern that public employees might try to use the power of their offices to influence elections, Congress passed the Hatch Act in 1939. The Hatch Act limits the political activities of certain federal, state, and local employees. It does not, however, prevent these employees from participating in the political process. Congress made amendments to the Hatch Act in 1993 which broadened the types of political activities in which public employees may participate. This article summarizes the Hatch Act's application to employees of state and local governments.