California will not accept new unemployment claims for the next two weeks as the state works to prevent fraud and reduce a substantial backlog, officials said late Saturday. "It's overwhelming. People ...

The Solano County unemployment rate was 5.3 percent in November, unchanged from a revised 5.3 percent in October, and above the year-ago estimate of 4.9 percent, officials at the state Employment ...

“Gov. Gavin Newsom’s staff at one point emailed LWDA [Labor and Workforce Development Agency] Secretary Julie Su to notify her that an individual was using the governor’s Social Security number to ...

The Sacramento U.S. Attorney's Office has charged a man with wire and mail fraud in another example of the fraud that hit California's Employment Development Department during the COVID-19 pandemic.