One of Lawrence’s largest manufacturers will be shut down for at least another three weeks, and many of its approximately 800 employees will need to start filing for unemployment.
Hallmark confirmed that its Lawrence production center would be closed until April 27. The company temporarily closed the greeting card plant, which is near the West Lawrence interchange on the Kansas Turnpike, on March 23. At that ...
More advice — and more pleas for patience — are flowing from the state officials responsible for getting Kansans signed up for unemployment benefits.
“Thank you for your patience with us,” Delía García, secretary of the Kansas Department of Labor, said in a webcast Tuesday. “We know we have a lot of things to go through and fix to make sure we are serving you.”
The department has been dealing ...
We all probably will have plenty of feelings about 2020, although I likely won’t be able to quote many of them in a family-friendly newspaper. It may be worth remembering, though, that at the beginning of the year we seemed optimistic. At least the latest sales tax numbers from the state suggest Lawrence shoppers were in a spending mood.
The state has released its March sales tax report, and it generally was ...
Officials with Kansas’ unemployment program are now working on adding an extra $600 per week to unemployment checks of Kansas residents, after previously having waited to start the process until they heard more from federal officials.
When Kansas residents, though, will start seeing the larger unemployment checks is still unclear. In a video posted to its Facebook page Monday, the Kansas Department of Labor ...
There are plenty of signs that the restaurant industry is hurting in Kansas, but less clear is that the state’s manufacturing sector is also getting hammered. In fact, the latest numbers from state officials suggest it was a more brutal week for the manufacturing sector than it was for even the restaurant and hospitality industry.
The latest numbers from the Kansas Department of Labor show that, for the week ...
That big empty building at the entrance to the city’s newest business park — Venture Park on the east edge of Lawrence — soon will have its first tenant. Whether the deal will provide a big boost in employment for the city, though, is still a bit unclear.
Plastikon Healthcare has signed a deal to take 22,000 square feet in the 153,000-square-foot building that is near the corner of 23rd Street and ...
