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  • Thursday, September 22, 2022 | 01:30pm

    NASHVILLE – Every county in Tennessee experienced lower unemployment rates in August, according to new data released by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development. For the month, 89 counties recorded rates below 5%, while the remaining six counties came in with rates higher than 5%, but less than 10%.

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  • Thursday, August 25, 2022 | 01:30pm

    NASHVILLE – Nearly every county in Tennessee experienced lower unemployment in July, according to new data provided by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD). Eighty-nine out of the state’s 95 counties saw their jobless numbers decrease during the month.

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  • Thursday, August 18, 2022 | 01:30pm

    NASHVILLE – Tennessee’s seasonally adjusted statewide unemployment rate remained unchanged for July 2022, according to newly released data from the Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD). For the third consecutive month, the rate has held steady at 3.3%.

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  • Friday, July 29, 2022 | 11:03am

    The Chief Elevator Inspector from the Department of Labor and Workforce Development’s Elevator Unit traveled to Gatlinburg Friday morning to investigate the Chondola Chair Lift at Anakeesta after the reported death of a passenger on Thursday, July 28, 2022.

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  • Thursday, July 28, 2022 | 01:30pm

    NASHVILLE – School employees on their yearly summer break were one of the factors that impacted the June 2022 county unemployment rates, according to the Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD). The latest statistics showed, as they typically do in June, jobless numbers increased in each of the state’s 95 counties.

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  • Thursday, July 21, 2022 | 01:30pm

    NASHVILLE – The rate at which people looked for new jobs across Tennessee held steady in June, according to newly released data from the Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD). The latest statistics also showed more people were on the job across the state in June compared to any other month on record.

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  • Monday, July 04, 2022 | 04:08pm

    The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD) has completed the testing phase of Jobs4TN.gov. TDLWD has determined the system is operational and ready to resume service.

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  • Sunday, July 03, 2022 | 10:42pm

    Geographic Solutions, Inc. (GSI) has reached the point in the recovery of Jobs4TN.gov where the company was able to place the system into a test phase. While in the test phase, the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce (TDLWD) will review system functionality. This is necessary to determine if all the state’s data has transferred correctly and the site is operating properly. TDLWD will complete a thorough test of the system and will do so as quickly as possible.

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  • Thursday, June 30, 2022 | 12:08pm

    Since Sunday, June 26, the Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD) has been working with Geographic Solution, Inc. (GSI), the vendor that operates Jobs4TN.gov, to navigate a system outage at the company’s network operations center that took Jobs4TN.gov offline.

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  • Tuesday, June 28, 2022 | 06:14pm

    Geographic Solutions (GSI), the vendor that operates Jobs4TN.gov, notified the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD) Sunday afternoon about a service interruption that impacted its network operations.

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  • Thursday, June 23, 2022 | 01:30pm

    NASHVILLE – New data released by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development showed unemployment rates increased slightly during May in each of the state’s 95 counties. Even with the minimal increases, 93 of Tennessee’s 95 counties maintained rates lower than 5% for the month.

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  • Thursday, June 16, 2022 | 01:30pm

    NASHVILLE – Preliminary data from the Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD) indicated Tennessee’s unemployment rate for May 2022 increased slightly from April’s record-breaking number. The seasonally adjusted statewide rate for the month was 3.3%, 0.1 of a percentage point higher than the previous month’s revised figure.

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