Nebraska Department of Labor Services Overview
Learn more at dol.nebraska.gov.
Employers can benefit from NDOL's resources, including:
- Assistance with recruiting, hiring, and upskilling workers (worker training grants and other programs)
- On-the-job training programs including Registered Apprenticeships
- Free On-Site Safety and Health Consultation Program
- Labor law specialists (minimum wage, contractor registration, child labor, Farm Labor Contractors Act, Meatpacking Industry Workers Bill of Rights)
- Short-Time Compensation Program (partial unemployment benefits while employee hours are reduced) and Rapid Response reemployment services for laid off workers
For workers and job seekers, NDOL offers services such as:
- Job search assistance and resume/interview preparation
- Career planning and skills assessments
- Assistance with unemployment insurance benefit applications
- Veteran reemployment assistance
- Thousands of active, easily searchable job opportunities posted directly on NEworks and scraped in from many other job boards
- Recruitment tools
- Labor market information including wages, labor availability, occupational projections, and business characteristics.
- Publications include H3 job rankings and monthly labor force data
- Portal for filing unemployment claims, unemployment insurance tax reports, and responding to requests from NDOL
For personalized assistance, the NDOL operates an American Job Center located in Beatrice, NE, at 2317 N. 6th St., Suite #3. The center is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Employers and job seekers can contact the Beatrice office by phone at 402-223-6060 or via email at ndol.beatricewfd@nebraska.gov.