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Ah, the last state of the bunch, alphabetically speaking only. When it comes to new hire reporting, Wyoming is right up there with the rest of the states, so no offense meant, Wyoming employers and residents!

In Wyoming, the labor law that kicks the new hire reporting into effect is the Wyoming Statute, Section 27-1-115. It complements the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, or PRWORA, passed by the United States Congress in 1996.

We know how the whole process works. You as a Wyoming employer are required by the Wyoming labor laws to send in all new hire, re-hire, and temporary workers information to the state New Hire Reporting Center within 20 days of the new hires starting on the job.

The info includes the new hire’s name, address and social security number. Along with that, according to the Wyoming labor law, you must provide your company’s name, your company’s address, and your company’s federal employer identification number. All of that information must go out for all of your new hires—via the mail, fax, phone, electronically, on magnetic tape, or by email or Internet. Pick your format.

That seems like a lot of work, right? We have heard the same issue brought up by employers from all other states, and it is a fair question posed by you and your human resource department.

But as I told those other employers in the other states, you should find this process a cinch if you already have all of this information in your system. And you should. On the new hire’s employment application, on their resume, on their payroll deduction forms, on their direct deposit forms, on their background investigation release FMLA forms, on their interview evaluations—you take your pick, you already have a form or forms with all of the new hire’s info that you need on it.

The Wyoming (WY) Department of Human Resources provides and governs over the laws of the state’s labor board. As citizens, most of us do not know all that much about what this board actually does, but it is crucial in helping those that employ people and those that are employees to find their niche in the field, so to speak. The department is responsible for providing a great deal of help as well as information to the general public about just how we stand in the union as compared to other states.

For example, one of the most crucial aspects of determining the well being of a state is that of its unemployment rate. The country’s unemployment rate is at 4.8 percent as of July of 2006. In Wyoming, the unemployment rate is at a mere 3 percent, one of the lowest in the country. What is more is that since 2001, there have been over 30,000 jobs added to the books in the state of Wyoming. That has helped to fuel the drop in unemployment from 4.5 percent in September of 2003, to the 3 percent it is currently sitting at.

Of course, there is more that has helped and more that the Wyoming Department of Human Resources has provided for us. Since 2001, the state has received over 130 million dollars worth of funds from the federal government for its Dislocated Worker Fund and its Job Training Fund. These programs are important to helping to develop the skills of those that need them to even qualify for employment within out state. Not only do they teach basic necessary skills, but also skills that can help them to find a career, not just a job. The Wyoming Department of Human Resources provides information about these programs and the state’s current stats.