The state Department of Labor has been awarded an $8 million federal grant to expand worker training in some of the state’s fastest-growing industries, officials announced Tuesday.
Connecticut employers added 700 jobs in July, while the jobs added in June were revised downward, according to a report released Monday by the state Department of Labor.
Connecticut employers added a record amount of jobs in June after the state recorded historic losses during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to state labor officials.
Connecticut’s labor department is adding reinforcements to a newly developed contact center aimed at improving communications for hundreds of thousands of workers left jobless during the COVID-19 pandemic.