Hundreds of state employees are being laid off less than a week before Christmas from the state Department of Labor and Industry’s unemployment compensation call centers.
The employees are caught in an unemployment compensation funding dispute between Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration and Senate Republicans.
Wolf’s administration is cutting about 520 jobs and closing unemployment compensation call centers in Allentown, Altoona and Lancaster.
The local Pennsylvania CareerLink office run by the state is located on Hollywood Drive (off Hansen Avenue) in the City of Butler. That office is not affected by the layoffs.
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