After a month of job losses, Wisconsin’s construction employment figure increased from May to June.

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Debate has raged in recent years over whether the steadily increasing cost of using workers’ compensation to treat injured employees threatens to someday make the entire system unaffordable to employers.

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Commercial construction in the state is chugging along at the same pace as last year, suggesting that the state's economy might be starting to level off following the gains of recent years.

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The Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce has named five new members to its 2016 Board of Directors.

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In a month that saw most states lose construction jobs, Wisconsin’s seasonally adjusted decline was the second largest recorded in the U.S.

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Wisconsin employers vastly overpaid for unemployment-related costs during the Great Recession because the state wasn't adequately prepared. And when the next big downturn comes, the state could face the same problem all over again.

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Since Gov. Scott Walker took office in 2011, Wisconsin's improving economy, along with a redoubled focus to protect unemployment insurance as a short-term safety net for those who are eligible, has stabilized the UI Trust Fund, reduced the tax burden on Wisconsin employers, and helped members of the workforce who are out of work through no fault of their own find new employment quickly.

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Employees cannot be denied unemployment benefits in Wisconsin for inadvertent errors, even if the worker has been repeatedly warned about such errors, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.

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A state court of appeals has found that several lawsuits the state Department of Workforce Development filed against an independent body that reviews the department’s jobless-benefit decisions were thrown out properly. In general, the DWD decides what benefits an unemployed ...

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New data show Madison and Dane County still have the lowest unemployment rates among cities and counties in Wisconsin.

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