It doesn’t take much to see that the Kansas Department of Labor is a mess, a hot mess, in fact. Its failures with the state’s unemployment system during the current national pandemic with massive unemployment…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — When Andrew Knight’s unemployment benefits landed in his bank account on a recent Monday instead of Thursday as usual, he thought the payment was merely early. He swiftly spent it paying…
TOPEKA — The head of the agency that’s overseeing Kansas’ response to historic unemployment rates during the coronavirus pandemic resigned Monday. Governor Laura Kelly said in a statement that Kansas Department of Labor Secretary Delía…
Kansas Labor Secretary Delia Garcia said Thursday that the state is better prepared to respond to layoffs stemming from the grounding of the troubled Boeing 737 Max than it was during the Great Recession, when…