Kelly Shulz, Maryland’s commerce secretary, asked businesses to consider getting people back to work on at least a part-time basis by taking advantage of the state’s work-sharing program during a webinar with Montgomery County Council President Sidney Katz on Friday.
It’s part of the state’s unemployment program, and it allows people to get back into their jobs even if their employer doesn’t have full-time hours available.
“It’s not a program that has been used frequently in the past,” she said, “but [the business] can bring them back part time and the employee can apply for unemployment the other days that they are not working.”
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