Making Unemployment Claims Part of a Manager's Performance Review

Each state administers unemployment benefits and has varying regulations that affect how benefits are administered. Every manager should become familiar with his or her state's unemployment regulations and processes because of the impact on the bottom line. Remember there is a tax set by each state. That state tax is a combination of a fixed tax and a variable tax. The fixed tax is applied to the employer’s payroll, while the variable tax (or premium) is determined by the number of unemployment benefit claims that a state pays to former employees. The variable tax is added to the fixed tax and then applied against the employer's payroll.

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