unemployment insurance
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of unemployment insurance
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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So once a year, the BLS adjusts for this by benchmarking its estimates against a near-complete count of employment based on state unemployment insurance records.
Government and private sources indicated unexpectedly low job openings for December, surprisingly high claims for unemployment insurance last week and a sharp uptick in corporate job cuts last month.
Stocks fell widely after a trio of reports from both government and private sources showed unexpectedly low job openings for December, surprisingly high claims for unemployment insurance last week and a sharp uptick in corporate job cuts last month.
Another example is federal unemployment insurance, which was adopted in the 1935 Social Security Act and significantly expanded over the ensuing decades.
Urssaf is an independent body that collects social charges from both companies and employees to fund France's state-run retirement accounts, unemployment insurance and medical coverage.
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