COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Businesses in South Carolina won’t see a hike in their unemployment insurance taxes next year, state officials announced Thursday. Those employer tax rates will either drop or stay the same in 2022, workforce officials said at ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a lawsuit against Gov. Henry McMaster over his early exit from federal unemployment programs providing extra money to residents during the pandemic. The unanimous opinion upheld State Circuit ...

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Initial S.C. unemployment claims for the week ending Aug. 21 increased by 112 from the previous week, with Greenville and Richland counties again seeing the most claims filed. For the week of Aug. 15-21, Greenville saw a state-high 152 first-time ...

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Unemployment insurance tax rates for 86.3% of S.C. employers will remain unchanged or decrease for 2021, and there will be no flat rate tax increases for employers, the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce announced today. The agency credited the ...

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South Carolina reached a new low in weekly unemployment claims filed since mid-March, becoming the state with fifth strongest recovery in terms of weekly claims, according to a recent study. South Carolinians filed 5,019 initial claims for the week ending ...

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The unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been since April 2008, but pay packets are still noticeably thinner than they were before the bubble burst—especially for lawyers. According to a report published this month by the National Employment Law Project, ...

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Brown v. Brennan (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-103-15, 9 pp.) (Richard Mark Gergel, J.) 4:14-cv-00307; D.S.C. Holding: Plaintiff, a part-time U.S. Postal Service employee whose hours were cut back, was indicted under 18 U.S.C. § 641 for under-reporting her income to ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina’s unemployment rate held steady last month at 6.6. percent, state officials said Friday. The state’s jobless rate was again unchanged in February, according to Department of Employment and Workforce. That marked the third month in ...

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The news concerning the job prospects of law school graduates has been relentlessly downbeat, filled with horror stories suggesting that grads at some schools are more likely to get jobs as store clerks than law clerks. But law schools take stock of the career fortunes of alumni only one time, nine months after graduation. After that, you’ll get plenty of anecdotes, but a paucity of hard numbers—and, given the state of the economy, law schools have little incentive to go looking for any.

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South Carolina law is generally rather unfavorable to employees who have been fired: the state’s “at will” doctrine allows an employer to fire an employee for any reason, or no reason at all. But the state recognizes one exception to the rule, the “public policy exception,” when a firing would violate a clear mandate of public policy. Since it is the only concession recognized by law, it’s a popular target for ex-employees suing for wrongful termination.

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