Furloughed Workers Eligible for Unemployment

Business
By Bill Walsh
Source: Fauquier Times-Democrat
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3 2009

Web Wonder

With the launch of an upgraded Web site in November 2007, the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) is attempting to serve as a one-stop shop for those looking for jobs and those with jobs to fill, according to Peter Mocarski, manager of the Culpeper and Fredericksburg regional VEC offices.

The site, www.vawc.virginia.gov, is open to employers to post positions. Those looking to fill them can get help writing a resume and creating an online profile of their skills and accomplishments.

"The site also 'spiders' out to other significant job sites on the Internet," Mocarski said, "including monster.com and careerbuilder.com."

Furloughed Workers Eligible for Unemployment

By Bill Walsh

Times-Democrat Staff Writer

The economic meltdown is global in scale, and being felt, albeit somewhat less painfully, in Fauquier County as elsewhere.

According to Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) calculations, 1,756 county residents were out of work in December, a figure that exceeds those from the beginning of the year by more than 520 new jobless people.

Though numbers are hard to come by, it is highly likely that in Fauquier as in the surrounding counties, part-time work has replaced full-time work for a number of residents, reductions in hours and pay, or both, have been instituted in some business firms, and employees are being asked to take furloughs — days or weeks away from work — without pay.

Most of the last-named are unaware that they are eligible for unemployment compensation for the unpaid leave.

See this week's Times-Democrat for the complete story.

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