Louisiana Workforce Commission

File weekly for unemployment benefits

For an individual to receive their weekly unemployment benefits, they must file their Weekly Certification by Sunday of each week they are unemployed. Filing your Weekly Certification can be compared to filling out a weekly timesheet.

Tri-Parish jobless rates down from a year ago

Tri-Parish jobless rates down from a year ago Staff Report Tri-Parish unemployment rates are down from August 2018 and the workforce is nearly unchanged over the year, according to not seasonally adjusted numbers from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. The workforce in St.

Unemployment rate declines for 8th month in a row to 4.6%

Louisiana’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased to 4.6 percent in December. This is the eighth consecutive month the unemployment rate has declined. Compared to December 2016, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate has decreased 1.4 percentage points.

Jobless rate improves from a year ago

June unemployment rates in the Tri-Parish area improved from a year ago, but the workforce has yet to catch up to the 2016 numbers, according to Bureau of Labor and Statistics data released by the Louisiana Workforce Commission. The combined workforce for St.

Jobless rates, work force down

Tri-Parish unemployment rates are down in February compared to a year ago, but the work force is also down, according to Bureau of Labor and Statistics data released by the Louisiana Workforce Commission. The work force in St. Landry, Acadia and Evangeline parishes dropped 1,846 people or 2.