Help finally on way for gig workers

Updated claims site set to launch Saturday

One week after Nevada launched a new web page for the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, gig workers, contractors and the selfemployed will have the ability to file continued claims.

In her inaugural weekly Friday morning news briefing, Heather Korbulic, the director of the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, said the new Pandemic Unemployment

Assistance system’s ability to process weekly claims is slated to go live Saturday morning, and payments should begin as soon as Wednesday.

The Employnv website is set to go down after 5 p.m. Friday to integrate the new the PUA system.

“Assuming everything goes well this evening, once the system is stood up as expected, filers can begin filing weekly claims starting this weekend,” Korbulic said.

‘Most complex part’ of PUA

The PUA is one of three unemployment-related provisions under the $2 trillion stimulus bill approved by Congress and makes independent contractors and self-employed workers eligible for unemployment benefits. The assistance is also made available to gig workers: short-term or temporary workers who usually connect with customers using an online platform such as Uber, Lyft or Instacart.

DETR’S IT and project staff worked through the night on Thursday to integrate “the second and most complex part of the PUA bill,” Korbulic said.

The first part of the website was launched May 16 at employnv.gov. Since then, users have reported a range of technical issues, including CAPTCHA code reading errors.

As of 7 a.m. Friday morning,

where the company operates Wynn Las Vegas and Encore, and in Boston, home of Encore Boston Harbor.

The commission’s examination of Wynn Resorts began after January 2018 when the Wall Street Journal published an article detailing allegations of workplace sexual misconduct and sexual harassment of female company employees by former Chairman and CEO

Steve Wynn. He has denied ever

harassing anyone.

He resigned the next month and divested himself from the company a month after that. Several other executives and board members left the company with nearly a dozen changes in the executive and board levels.

The commission ordered a monitor for the company in April 2019.

Contact Richard N. Velotta at rvelotta@reviewjournal.com or 702-477-3893. Follow @Rickvelotta on Twitter.