Department of Labor and Workforce Development

Simplified questions, bigger text and answer buttons and the introduction of “helper text” are among the first of "many improvements" state labor officials announced.

More than half a million New Jerseyans expected to claim weekly unemployment benefits starting Sunday, now need to log on Monday, instead.

As part of the COVID-19 response, programmers who know COBOL are being called to work for the state.

Parents struggling with childcare, and workers struggling for hours amid the novel coronavirus do have state resources to use.

You’re either out of work, underemployed, working more than one job to make ends meet (join the club); and hearing the news that we’re coming out of the recession; and you say what? BS! According to our recent report, Nancy Mantell, Director of Rutgers Economic Advisory Service says that our economy has “decisively” come out of the recession, but the comback will be modest because of ongoing probl