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In 1997, the Utah Legislature passed the New Hire Legislation, under Chapter 7, Section 35A-7-101 of the state law code. This chapter has the title “Centralized New Hire Registry Act,” and covers all of the labor laws requiring employers to report their new hires to the state of Utah, who them pass along the info to the federal new hire officials.

The Utah Department of Workforce Services is the department in charge of the whole process in the state, so all of your new hire reports and questions should go to them. (Or me, of course!)

The way it works in Utah, and in most states that we have looked at so far, is that employers transmit the reports on each and every one of their new hires and re-hires to the Utah Department of Workforce Services. The state then uses that list to compare it with the state child support records. That way, any violator of the child support rules in the state of Utah will come up as a match.

The Utah Department of Workforce Services then passes along its list of new hires to the National Directory of New Hires, who has a database of new hires for every state in the country. The officials at the National Directory of New Hires can then see if there is a delinquent parent in Utah or hasn’t paid child support payments for a child in, say, Pennsylvania.

The process can also catch employees in Utah who are receiving state welfare aid even though they are now working and are not entitled to such aid. Take Medicaid, Food Stamps, Workers’ Comp, Unemployment Benefits, Disability, and other social welfare aid. If an employee is receiving that while they are working for, the state will catch it thanks to the new hire reporting system.

In Utah (UT) there are many employees and employers that need the assistance and the guidance of the Department of Human Resources. This department helps all of us to maintain and achieve employment as well as protect our rights as both employer and employee. This department is responsible for all aspects of the labor world for our state. They work very hard at maintaining and achieving unemployment goals.

In Utah they have set very good goals as far as unemployment percentage is concerned. And have worked very hard to get these. In April of 2003 the unemployment rate was at 5.8%. The current rate is now at 3.4% which is incredible when you consider that the unemployment rate nationally stands at 4.8%. These are impressive numbers as a state and shows to others that it can be done. This was able to be achieved through the creation of over 120,000 new jobs in the past five years. This has gone a long way in bringing down the unemployment level as well as through the retraining of those that have become unemployed. Throughout the state there are unemployment stations that work to either retrain or place those that have become unemployed in order to get them back into the workforce and contributing to our society.

The department in Utah is also responsible for maintaining and establishing workplace safety guidelines in order to make the work environment safe and secure. This department is also responsible for the maintaining of the unemployment and worker’s compensation benefits that are received through the state. It is also through this area that all laws are created, maintained and enforced. This is particularly important for those employees that are minors in the state. These laws help protect minors as well as adult employees in the state as well.