COVID-19’s latest variant is on the loose, but local experts think vaccines can mitigate its spread and severity.
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Gov. Joe Lombardo signed a bipartisan bill to repeal COVID-era health regulations.
Expect to pay out-of-pocket for over-the-counter COVID-19 tests, for a start.
Already at pandemic lows, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations dipped this week.
Given that the population of Nevada is relatively young, the state “should have done better,” said one health expert.
The last week of federal unemployment benefits that was supposed to come this week is now expected next week.
Tuesday marks the beginning of long-awaited payments for some Nevada independent contractors and self-employed workers.
Former DETR employees told the Review-Journal the state agency could be doing a better job preventing fraud while paying out jobless claims quickly.
Nevada’s agency overseeing unemployment insurance suspects anywhere between 133,748 and 185,484 possibly fraudulent jobless claims have been filed.
Workers waiting weeks or months for their pending unemployment benefits will have to sit tight for one more week. But the funds are coming.
A Nevada judge will order the state’s employment department to begin paying gig and independent worker claims.
A Nevada judge is expected to decide Monday whether the state’s employment bureau must immediately pay out pending benefits claims to the state’s independent, gig and self-employed workers.
A comprehensive report examining ways to address payment processing delays for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims found multiple “‘bottlenecks’ and fractures”.
Seven Nevada businesses were fined for failing to follow COVID-19 health and safety rules, Nevada’s Occupational Health and Safety Administration announced Thursday.
The Review-Journal previously spoke with claimants trying to navigate the unemployment system. Some have received pay, while others continue their struggle to collect benefits.
Second Judicial District Court Judge Barry Breslow ordered a hearing scheduled to be moved from 9 a.m. Thursday to 9 a.m. Monday.
The state with the highest unemployment rate in the country as of May is going into its fourth week without a director to run the employment office.
Nevada’s self-employed workers hoping for a judicial remedy to their pending unemployment claims will have to wait another week for an answer.
Gov. Steve Sisolak said Friday that he would “take swift and decisive actions” against those that don’t comply.