{"id":2716,"date":"2023-04-14T15:09:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T15:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2023-05-09T15:19:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T15:19:32","slug":"wmc-supports-unemployment-insurance-law-and-workforce-metrics-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2716","title":{"rendered":"WMC Supports Unemployment Insurance Law and Workforce Metrics Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/issues\/hr-employment\/wmc-supports-unemployment-insurance-law-and-workforce-metrics-reforms\/\">https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/issues\/hr-employment\/wmc-supports-unemployment-insurance-law-and-workforce-metrics-reforms\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\",sans-serif;color: black\">WMC\u2019s Senior Director of Workforce, Education &amp; Employment Policy Rachel Ver Velde testified in support of a package of workforce bills, which contain reforms to the state\u2019s unemployment insurance and workforce metrics laws. Wisconsin\u2019s labor force participation rate is currently 64.5%, which is better than the national average. But, it is significantly lower than our state\u2019s peak of 74.5% in 1997. And, even more concerning, it is a full point lower than at the beginning of the pandemic in April 2020. This labor participation rate is unsustainable for employers in Wisconsin, especially when coupled with low birth rates and stagnant in-migration. If we want to continue to be a leader in manufacturing, agriculture and other industries, we must have a strong workforce. That is why it is important that government policies do not keep or place individuals on the sidelines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001TUQKz7r0jPEeVj2fm0ZqXL2_JASas8_cP7L8tD2-0AC9E4AGXmtL_3sIg8q84wHzKpE2kgHFcnBHQhqfKZyACQ9B11dHJOck7ZJ_G2Y6Dx3mgOtUWC2DEyEdygQMElRjBlN8DsyxxINgbHutcJ9z7td_1gkMvHKfk43obnuW6710mQVdkDnNpI_lqmWJm0oHJSg_TVIndjpiV9Tb1J-a-kG9Ra-87Z9ckCMsa1DTW06sVT1n9dBRodQxMzFzFfTrIfiHcRw3krQNmqxLmJfFASCUGsTOkrKl62aFqWrAGKM=&amp;c=P3s40iuUa15Q8HHj_s6SbYAS9lUJRORxYOBp1gyzeZat9o60h-AHnw==&amp;ch=ypL2gPYWIuNAfP7Fiu1075fKw-pEi-awZ3QHg_sWpVC6P66U0ppokg==\">Click here to read WMC\u2019s testimony to the Workforce Development Committee.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001TUQKz7r0jPEeVj2fm0ZqXL2_JASas8_cP7L8tD2-0AC9E4AGXmtL_3sIg8q84wHz1D60-UBuXByO-TElkMjAHjgn66uKBNlyIlmDvPkBXQuNaZkt7Ay2MOja_iRNBcy79_hHT_4BvtR2ay0pP-mOAAcd6hZdTnJReGCtRwA24mHNW1Ic8apNhTa86ftkuMrmLMhsIjUw7VM887w4yhqRKevsfa3AHbp4-TVTJAdYWwNI4yZ7BaNsadrLWVuVARO9Q4qbz0PQCFAHBA6-qdNhRw==&amp;c=P3s40iuUa15Q8HHj_s6SbYAS9lUJRORxYOBp1gyzeZat9o60h-AHnw==&amp;ch=ypL2gPYWIuNAfP7Fiu1075fKw-pEi-awZ3QHg_sWpVC6P66U0ppokg==\">Click here to read WMC\u2019s testimony to the Labor Committee.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/issues\/hr-employment\/wmc-supports-unemployment-insurance-law-and-workforce-metrics-reforms\/\">WMC Supports Unemployment Insurance Law and Workforce Metrics Reforms<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\">WMC Wisconsin&#8217;s Chamber <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/issues\/hr-employment\/wmc-supports-unemployment-insurance-law-and-workforce-metrics-reforms\/ WMC\u2019s Senior Director of Workforce, Education &amp; Employment Policy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2717,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/2717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}