HANOVER TOWNSHIP — The Morris-Sussex-Warren Workforce Development Board arranged for Robert Asaro-Angelo, the Commissioner of New Jersey Department of Labor & Workforce Development to attend a meeting hosted by Employment Horizons, Cedar Knolls.
The Commissioner spoke about the dignity of work and the challenges organizations like Employment Horizons face in order to make sure that everyone who wants to work has the opportunity and supports to do so. In attendance were representatives from Morris-Sussex-Warren Workforce Development Board, One-Stop Career Center and Accses New Jersey.
The meeting is timely, although disability unemployment in the United States is 8 percent in 2018 at, according to recently released data by the Bureau of Labor Statistics New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, are slightly higher at 9.9 percent.