SF News Safeway Fires 22-Year Veteran Employee For Thwarting a Shoplifter, Then Denies Unemployment Claim A San Mateo Safeway may regret their decision to fire an employee who stopped a $500 shoplifting attempt, and then deny that employee unemployment benefits, because a state board ruled they have to pay the unemployment, and now a wrongful termination suit is looming.
SF News State of SF Economy: Tech Booming, Unemployment Low, But Tourism and Hospitality Still Screwed The SF unemployment rate is a fabulously low 2.9%, but the FiDi is still a ghost town, and SF’s economic recovery lags behind that of other cities, according to a new report from the Office of the Controller.
SF News SF Unemployment Rate Dips to Just 3%, But More Still Unemployed Than Before Pandemic The latest unemployment numbers are encouraging — though the figures are from before the Omicron variant hit — with the unemployment rate hitting just 3% in SF, and even lower in Marin, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties.
SF News Massive Unemployment Scam Four Times Worse Than Thought, Victims Frozen Out of Their Own Accounts Scammers have racked up an estimated $8 billion in benefits, taken from the pockets of a million and a half genuinely unemployed people, who then find themselves locked out of their accounts, as California’s unemployment fraud spirals out of control.
SF News NorCal Woman Has Allegedly Been Collecting Unemployment Benefits In Dianne Feinstein's Name In one of many cases of EDD fraud being investigated, a Sacramento area woman who used to work for the EDD apparently cashed in $21,000 in fraudulent claims using the name and social security number of Senator Dianne Feinstein.
SF News 6,900 People Lost Their Jobs In SF In January Unemployment remains at just 3.2 percent in San Francisco as of the end of January, however that is up from 2.9 percent in December, and a whopping 6,900 lost their
SF News Unemployed Winner Of $70 Million Takes Month To Decide To Retire Eurico Chin had time to go for a meandering walk that ended up at the Safeway at Noriega and 30th Avenue: after all, he was unemployed. Perhaps his jobless state was what caused
SF News Unemployment Report Reveals Harrowing Numbers While style-free male nerds and affectedly geek-chic (vomit) young girls continue to make a killing in Mission Bay, SOMA, and Silicon Valley, the rest of the country still feels the pinch of post-recession
SF News S.F. Unemployment Numbers Still Awful Second verse, same as the first: San Francisco's unemployment rate skipped from 9.6 percent in June to 9.7 percent last month. Although, as SF Weekly reports, we're not the worst in
SF News Census Not Having Any Problem Finding Staff in SF For today's snoozeflash from the local media outlets, the Examiner reports that the two San Francisco offices administering the 2010 census haven't had any trouble finding candidates to fill the 3,000 temporary
SF News Don't Have Your I.D.? You Can't Vote on a Regular Ballot, Says Initiative 80 initiatives and referenda and are out and about around the state with advocates trying to collect enough signatures so they can qualify for an upcoming election ballot. You might see people at
SF News CA Underemployment Rate Hits 22% Long seen by economists as a truer marker than the traditional unemployment rate, CA's underemployment rate hit a shocking 22% in September. Per the Chron: "That figure includes 1.9 million jobless Californians,
SF News California Jobless Rate Climbs While some have declared the recession over, more or less, California's job rate might disagree. In August, we witnessed the jobless figure "climb to 12.2 percent last month, the highest on records
SF News 'Pink Slip Parties' Return Not unlike speed-dating events where desperation and forced smiles hang thick in the air, so-called 'pink-slip' parties are allegedly making a comeback. These were popular during the dot-com bust eight years ago where
SF News Calif. Jobless Rate Breaks Record In some not-so-cheery Friday news, California's unemployment rate skyrocketed to 11.5 percent in May, making it "the highest in modern record-keeping," according to the U.S. Department of Labor. NBC Bay Area
SF News Map: Northern California Unemployment View Northern CA Unemployment in a larger map SFGate's 'Scavenger' came up with the above handy Google map, denoting the 20 northern California cities with the highest unemployment rates. While it's not a
misc <i>SF Weekly</i> Catches On to 'Funemployment' Whether you're an optimist or a pessimist, getting laid off from your job in the shittiest economy in decades isn't exactly swell news, but certainly we live in one of the best cities
SF News Unemployment Benefits Extended Today, the California State Senate "passed legislation that will extend benefits to the unemployed by 20 weeks, sending Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger the first bill involving money from the federal economic stimulus package," according
SF News San Francisco to Suck in 2009: Unemployment Rate by the Numbers In some more grim news, California's unemployment rate skyrocketed from 7.7 percent in September to 8.2 percent in October. The numbers go like this: the state of California's unemployment numbers are
SF News Extend unemployment benefits, says Obama During his first address to the nation since the election, President-elect Barack Obama, after answering numerous inane questions about getting a dog, called Friday for an extension of unemployment benefits. Awesome. Seeing as
