HARTFORD, Conn. (WTIC Radio)_ The Connecticut Department of Labor is reinstating the weekly work search requirement on Sunday, May 30, 2021.
Connecticut joins more than two dozen states in restoring the work search requirement and, beginning May 30, 2021, will require claimants to document their efforts to find a job.
The mandatory work search requirement for those receiving unemployment benefits was waived last March due to mass layoffs in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Now that vaccine is widely available and we have public health guidance in place to reduce the infection rate, many residents are heading back to work," says DOL Commissioner Kurt Westby.
The DOL says claimants can make reasonable weekly work search efforts by contacting employers for positions that relatively meet their prior work experience and retain documentation related to work search activities.
Claimants must also engage in at least two of the following:
-Participate in a job interview
- Attend a workshop at an American Job Center or a job fair
- Participate in reemployment service activities at an American Job Center
- Create a reemployment plan
- Create and post a resume to www.CTHires.com
- Create a personal user profile on a professional networking site
- Contact another employer for a job for which the claimant is reasonably suite as outlined above
Claimants who do not participate in approved work search activities are denied unemployment benefits for that week.
