Stephanie Welch, NMCLP director of workers rights said her main focus is on a budget request to give @NMDWS the resources needed to enforce the paid leave mandate going into effect in July.
“We know it's meaningless for workers unless enforced."
https://t.co/r8I5IqHhYl #nmleg
We still remember our members testifying last year in support of Paid Sick Leave. Thank you @NMPovertyLaw! We also want to see NMDWS receive the funding needed to enforce paid sick leave and protect workers. #nmleg
Hey, @ARomero_NM
Can we get the @NMDWS a process that truly workers for people getting back to work?
Overly burdensome barriers to access?
Faxes(plural)?
The current nonfuntional process seems to work as designed, but not for the people.
#PFML Taskforce (aka Senate Memorial 3) A third amendment is made to SM1 by Republican Senators: ensure NMDWS does not select representatives from one NM county.
The first R amendment was trying to remove the Speaker of the NM House to make an appt to task force. This failed.
Students aged 15 and up in Carlsbad, New Mexico, earned up to $200 for attending a workforce readiness training program and accepting jobs with local employers as part of a...
New Mexicans can now apply for DUA at various evacuation shelters, at any Workforce Connection Center across the state, or by calling the Unemployment Insurance Operations Center at 1-877-664-6984, 7am-4:30pm Monday through Friday. The deadline to apply is June 15, 2022.
The Department no longer sends text messages to claimants unless they have selected that as their preferred method.
The only website an individual can file a claim or to view the status of their claims is in the New Mexico Tax & Claims System is https://t.co/UNDMm1CzPk
The Healthy Workplaces Act (NM’s new paid sick leave law) takes effect on July 1, 2022. Is your business ready?
The law allows workers up to 64 hours of accrued leave for illness & more. Informational webinars offered by NMDWS.
Visit https://t.co/htGgR099iO.
#sickleave#BSBD
@NMDWS you promised to call at 8:30 after 5.5 months of me winning my appeal. It is almost like you are a deadbeat parent. Empty promises and yet, i still want to believe you will help me.
Calling me while I was insanely busy yesterday was a nice touch. Now you are totally MIA
The New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions is assembling a task force to develop recommendations for the enactment and implementation of a Paid Family & Medical Leave Act, including the establishment and administration of a PFML trust fund administered by the department.
Whether you're a Republican, a Democrat or an Independent, Americans understand that right now, the richest people in this country and the largest corporations are doing phenomenally well while the middle class of this country struggles.
That is going to change.
All children deserve a gold-standard education. But for generations, our state has starved our education system. Powerful piece by plaintiffs in the landmark #Yazzie case, James Martinez & Marsha Leno, calls on state leaders to collaborate. #nmleg#nmpol https://t.co/UtNKcGye0h
One of the most compelling but underrecognized reasons that the Federal Reserve should aim for sustained low unemployment is the potential to narrow troubling racial gaps in wages and employment.
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