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Commissioner Laura Fortman

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Commissioner Laura Fortman
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Commissioner Laura Fortman With Maine Department Of Labor gives us an update:

  • What employers should do if their employees are refusing to come back to work
  • How they are rolling those who exhausted their benefits into the PUA program.
  • What is the real unemployment number?

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