Tag: ADOL
ADOL issues reminders regarding teen employment
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – As summer approaches, the Alabama Department of Labor is reminding employers of the regulations associated with employing teen workers. As many...
Cullman Co. unemployment rate lowest in state at 2.1%; AL rate...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington on Friday announced that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted December unemployment rate is 3.9%, down...
ADOL announces new phone appointment system, discontinuing in-person assistance
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Alabama Department of Labor this week announced a new phone appointment system for unemployment compensation claimants who need assistance with...
State’s Nov. unemployment rate drops to 4.4%; Cullman County’s tied for...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced Friday that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted November unemployment rate is 4.4%, down from...
Alabama’s October unemployment rate drops to 5.8%; Cullman tied for lowest...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced today that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted October unemployment rate is 5.8%, down from...
Alabama’s September unemployment rate 6.6%; Cullman County lowest in state at...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced Friday that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted September unemployment rate is 6.6%, up from...
Alabama begins paying Lost Wages Assistance Program
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Governor Kay Ivey and Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced Thursday that Alabama began paying the Lost Wages Assistance...
ADOL: Initial unemployment claims trending downward
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Alabama Department of Labor (ADOL) on Thursday released the official count for initial unemployment claims filed during the week of...
ADOL warns unemployment recipients to be wary of fraud- New fraud...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Alabama Department of Labor (ADOL) is warning Alabamians receiving unemployment compensation to be wary of fraud and to protect their...
Alabama’s June unemployment rate drops to 7.5%; Cullman County’s rate falls...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Alabama Department of Labor (ADOL) Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced Friday that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted June unemployment rate is 7.5%, down...
$600 FPUC benefit set to expire July 25
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – ADOL is reminding all unemployment compensation claimants that Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), the additional $600 federal benefit granted by the...
ADOL announces Extended Benefits unemployment program to begin
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Alabama Department of Labor (ADOL) announced Monday that the state will begin offering Extended Benefits (EB) for those who qualify...
May Unemployment: Alabama’s rate drops to 9.9%, Cullman County’s to 7.6%
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington on Friday announced that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted May unemployment rate is 9.9%, down...
ADOL has disbursed more than $1.5B in unemployment benefits
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Department of Labor (ADOL) Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced today that ADOL has disbursed more than $1.5 billion in COVID-19 related...
ADOL warns of unemployment compensation scams
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Alabama Department of Labor (ADOL) is warning unemployment compensation recipients to beware of scammers who may be seeking to fraudulently...
Alabama’s April unemployment rate is 12.9%; Cullman County’s rate is 11.7%
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington on Friday announced that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted April unemployment rate is 12.9%, up...
ADOL: $503M in unemployment benefits disbursed; Payments represent 84% of claims...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Department of Labor (ADOL) Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced Monday that ADOL has disbursed more than $503 million in COVID-19 related...
ADOL: $372M in unemployment benefits disbursed; Payments represent 64% of claims...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced today that ADOL has disbursed more than $372 million in unemployment compensation benefits....
ADOL has disbursed $164M in COVID-19-related unemployment benefits
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Department of Labor Sec. Fitzgerald Washington announced Monday that ADOL has disbursed more than $164 million in COVID-19-related unemployment compensation...
ADOL launches UI Claims Tracker to assist unemployment compensation claimants
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced Thursday the agency has launched a new online tool to enable claimants to...
Alabama to begin processing claims under CARES Act provisions
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced Monday that Alabama will begin processing unemployment compensation claims under all programs created...
ADOL begins paying federal $600 stimulus benefit
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced today Alabama has begun paying the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) benefit that...
ADOL encourages employees to file for benefits under the CARES Act
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Alabama Department of Labor (ADOL) is encouraging employees who believe they may qualify for programs under the CARES Act to...
ADOL fines roofing company $15K in 2019 death of minor in...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - On Monday, July 1, 2019, a 15-year-old Guatemalan roofing worker fell to his death from the roof of Cullman Casting in...
Alabama reaches record low 2.8% unemployment rate; Cullman County rate falls...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Department of Labor Sec. Fitzgerald Washington announced Friday that Alabama reached a new record low unemployment rate in October. Alabama’s...
Alabama reaches record low 3.0% unemployment rate; Cullman County’s rate falls...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Department of Labor Sec. Fitzgerald Washington announced Friday that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted September unemployment rate is 3.0%, a new...
Alabama sets new record low unemployment rate at 3.3%; Cullman’s rate...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Alabama set four new economic records in July, Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced Friday. July’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is...
Alabama sets 5 economic records in June; state unemployment 3.5%, Cullman...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama set five new economic records in June, Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced Friday. June’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is...
Record low 3.7% unemployment rate in Alabama; Cullman County rate drops...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Alabama Department of Labor on Friday released the state’s unemployment data for May 2019. Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted May unemployment...
Cullman County’s unemployment rate falls to 3%; Alabama’s at 3.8%
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – For the fourth month in a row, more people are working in Alabama than ever before. In April, preliminary estimates account...
Cullman County unemployment rate ticks up to 3.7%, still 2nd lowest...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted January 2019 unemployment rate is 3.8 percent, unchanged from December 2018’s rate, and below January 2018’s rate...
Cullman County’s unemployment rate remains 2.9%, 2nd lowest in state
MONTGOMERY – Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted unemployment December rate is 3.9 percent, down from November’s rate of 4.0 percent, and slightly above December 2017’s...
ADOL: Employment, jobs count hit record high for 6th consecutive month;...
MONTGOMERY – Alabama’s statewide unemployment rate for October is unchanged from September’s. According to the Alabama Department of Labor (ADOL), the preliminary, seasonally adjusted...
Cullman Co. unemployment rate down slightly to 3.4%, second-lowest in state
MONTGOMERY - The Alabama Department of Labor (ADOL) on Friday released the state’s latest unemployment numbers. Statewide, Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted August unemployment rate...
AL unemployment rate holds steady at 4.1%; Cullman Co. dips to...
MONTGOMERY - Alabama Department of Labor Sec. Fitzgerald Washington on Friday announced that the preliminary, seasonally adjusted statewide unemployment rate for July is 4.1...
Cullman unemployment rate jumps up to 4.2%; Alabama at 4.1%
MONTGOMERY – The Alabama Department of Labor (ADOL) on Friday released unemployment numbers for June 2018. Statewide, June’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is...
Funding for economic development of abandoned mine lands to be available...
MONTGOMERY – Cullman County is among those eligible to apply for grant money to reclaim and develop abandoned coal mine land. Sec. of Labor...
May unemployment numbers up slightly: Alabama at 3.9%, Cullman County at...
MONTGOMERY – The Alabama Department of Labor on Friday released May’s unemployment numbers. According to ADOL, Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted May unemployment rate is...
Alabama unemployment rate steady at 3.8%; Cullman County’s rate dips to...
MONTGOMERY – Gov. Kay Ivey’s office released the state’s April 2018 unemployment numbers Friday morning. According to the state, Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted April...
Unemployment assistance available to workers affected by storms in Calhoun, Cullman...
The Dollar Tree, in the Marktplatz shopping center, is one business that remains closed due to damage from the March 19 hail storm in...
Alabama unemployment rate up slightly to 3.8%; Cullman’s rate dips to...
MONTGOMERY – The Alabama Department of Labor released the state’s latest unemployment numbers Friday morning. Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted March 2018 unemployment rate is...
State’s February unemployment rate maintains record low of 3.7%; Cullman’s rate...
MONTGOMERY - The office of Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday announced that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted February unemployment rate held steady at 3.7 percent,...
Cullman County unemployment rate dips to 2.8%
MONTGOMERY - December’s state unemployment numbers were released Friday morning, with Alabama maintaining November’s rate of 3.5 percent, a record low, and Cullman County’s...
Alabama unemployment hits record low 3.5%; Cullman Co. steady at 3%
MONTGOMERY – The state’s unemployment rate has dropped to 3.5 percent, a new record, according to a media release from Gov. Kay Ivey. Cullman...
State’s Oct. unemployment rate record low 3.6%; Cullman Co. at 3%
MONTGOMERY – Gov. Kay Ivey’s office Friday morning released the state’s latest unemployment numbers. According to the Alabama Department of Labor (ADOL), Alabama’s preliminary,...
AL unemployment rate at historic low 3.8%; Cullman County second lowest...
MONTGOMERY – Gov. Kay Ivey announced Friday that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted September unemployment rate is 3.8 percent, down from August’s rate of 4.2...
Cullman Co. unemployment rate drops to 3.6 percent, second lowest in...
MONTGOMERY – Data available Thursday from the Alabama Department of Labor (ADOL) showed Cullman County’s preliminary August 2017 unemployment rate as 3.6 percent, a...
Cullman Co. eligible for grant money to reclaim and develop abandoned...
BIRMINGHAM – Cullman County is among those eligible for grant money to reclaim and develop abandoned coal mine land.
Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald...
State unemployment rate drops to 4.6%; Cullman up slightly at 4.3%
MONTGOMERY – Gov. Kay Ivey and Alabama Department of Labor Sec. Fitzgerald Washington announced recently that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted June unemployment rate is...
April state unemployment rate drops to 5.4%; Cullman Co. rate plummets...
MONTGOMERY – Alabama Department of Labor Sec. Fitzgerald Washington announced Friday that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted April unemployment rate is 5.4 percent, down from...
AL unemployment rate down to 5.8%; Cullman County state’s 3rd lowest...
MONTGOMERY – Alabama Department of Labor Sec. Fitzgerald Washington announced today that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted March unemployment rate is 5.8percent, down from February’s...
Alabama unemployment rate down slightly to 6.2%, Cullman down to 5.3%
MONTGOMERY – Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced today that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted February unemployment rate is 6.2%, down from January’s...
(UPDATE) Data breach of America’s JobLink (AJL) affects Alabamians
UPDATED: Alabama: new call center operational; AJLA to offer credit monitoring services
NEW INFORMATION:
AJLA-TS has established a call center to answer questions from those who...
Alabama’s unemployment rate rises to 6.4%; Cullman Co. among lowest at...
MONTGOMERY – Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced today that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted January unemployment rate is 6.4%, up from December’s...
Workshop tomorrow in Cullman for huge job fair in Huntsville March...
HUNTSVILLE – The Alabama Career Center System will host a series of job readiness workshops beginning Friday, March 10 and continuing through Thursday, March...
Alabama’s December unemployment rate 6.2%; Cullman’s 4.9%
MONTGOMERY – Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced today that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted December unemployment rate is 6.2 percent, up from...
ADOL: Alabama’s November unemployment rate 5.9%; Cullman’s 4.7%
MONTGOMERY – Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced today that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted November unemployment rate is 5.9 percent, with Cullman...
Alabama Department of Labor obtaining convictions for unemployment compensation fraud
MONTGOMERY – Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced Thursday that the department has successfully prosecuted several Alabamians for unemployment compensation fraud. The...
Alabama’s June unemployment rate is 6%
MONTGOMERY – Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington announced yesterday that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted June unemployment rate is 6.0%, unchanged from May’s...
Alabama’s May unemployment rate is unchanged at 6.1%
MONTGOMERY – Alabama Department of Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald Washington announced today that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted May unemployment rate is 6.1 percent, unchanged from...
