Two top bureaucrats at S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s embattled Department of Employment and Workforce (SCDEW) resigned this week.
Michael Buchman, the agency’s director of business services, submitted his resignation on Monday. Meanwhile Dennis King – an assistant director of employment services at the agency – also resigned Monday.
The departures came on the same day FITS exposed [...]
SCDEW Exodus
SCDEW: Dumb. Ass. Bureaucrats.
It’s bad enough that S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s incompetent, scandal-ravaged, deficit-running Department of Employment and Workforce (SCDEW) is taking yet another taxpayer-funded vacation. But you won’t believe the ridiculousness we’re subsidizing in conjunction with this boondoggle …
According to the SCDEW brochure for this event – obtained exclusively by FITS – the conference being held at the [...]
SCDEW: The More Things Change
Less than two weeks after S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley decided to take another stab at running a “workforce agency,” the incompetent baboons … err, buffoons in charge of her S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce (SCDEW) were up to their old tricks again.
Leaders at this inept agency – which doles out millions of dollars in [...]
Historic SC Labor Participation Rate Data
We haven’t had many nice things to say about S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s Department of Employment and Workforce (SCDEW) – the agency that was supposed to bring “efficiency and accountability” to the administration of the state’s unemployment benefits. In fact we’ve basically made his agency our bitch over the last two years, pistol-whipping all sorts [...]
Here’s SCDEW’s “Restructuring Plan”
We’ve written extensively recently about budget shortfalls and layoffs at S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s chronically mismanaged Department of Employment and Workforce (SCDEW).
For those of you unfamiliar with the Palmetto State’s ever-expanding maze of alphabet soup bureaucracies, this is the agency which doles out federal unemployment benefits … badly, at that.
(Cue boilerplate) Last year SCDEW doled [...]
SCDEW Job Vacancy Announcement
From: DEWHumanResources
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 9:05 AM
To: SCDEW Employees
Subject: Vacancy Announcement
ALL EMPLOYEES – NEW JOB VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Job postings for positions throughout the state can be found on the State of South Carolina jobs website at http://jobs.sc.gov. The postings contain a supplemental question regarding office location. Please carefully consider the options and only select locations [...]
SCDEW Layoffs: Bigger Than Reported?
As many as 400 employees will be laid off from the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce in the coming days, sources tell FITS. That’s nearly three times the number of layoffs confirmed by the agency earlier this week.
Of course many of the laid off employees will be able to apply for jobs at the “restructured” [...]
SCDEW: More Layoffs
Last month FITS exclusively reported on “another round of staffing cuts” coming to the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce (SCDEW). The reason? An anticipated $7 million deficit at the agency – which is responsible for doling out benefits to the unemployed.
Guess what … we were right (again).
According to the Associated Press the agency announced its intention [...]
This Is Why S.C. State Is So Terrible
For those of you unfamiliar with South Carolina State University, it’s the Palmetto State’s largest historically black university – one which is slated to receive $117.4 million in the budget during the coming fiscal year.
What’s it doing with all that money?
Based on recent reports, not a whole helluva lot.
Anyway, to say that S.C. State has [...]
SCDEW Facing Budget Deficit
Despite three rounds of layoffs over the last six months, S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s Department of Employment and Workforce (SCDEW) is still hemorrhaging taxpayer cash. In fact sources at the agency tell FITS another round of staffing cuts is coming as the agency seeks to address a large budget deficit.
How large? Our sources say SCDEW [...]
SC House Restores SCDEW Rural Offices
Columbia, SC – The S.C. House of Representatives yesterday adopted a bipartisan budget amendment by Rep. Ted Vick (D- Chesterfield) and Rep. Nelson Hardwick (R-Surfside Beach) to restore seventeen rural employment centers dismantled by the state Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW) last month.
“We need to help the unemployed in our state get back [...]
Another Round Of SCDEW Layoffs Coming
The S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce (SCDEW) is preparing for another round of layoffs – its third reduction in force in the last six months.
It’s unclear at this point how many jobs will be eliminated, but sources tell FITS the layoffs are focused on the information technology and labor market information sectors of the [...]
