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Tuesday July 13
2021
 Overview of Basic Unemployment Insurance

This training will introduce participants to the unemployment insurance (UI) application process, how to maintain your benefits once you have been approved for UI, and it will provide an overview of some of the challenges claimants face while receiving their benefits. In addition, the training will cover Department of Labor denials of unemployment insurance and how to appeal a denial of benefit determination. The training will be interactive with lots of poll narratives so that the participants get to learn the materials in an interactive way.

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  • When
    Tuesday, July 13, 2021
    9:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Format
    Fully Interactive Videoconference
  • Practice Area(s)
    Employment
  • Price: $0
  • Materials
    Contains 1 training item(s)

About the Faculty

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    Young Lee (Speaker)

    Young Woo Lee is the Director of the Employment Law Unit at The Legal Aid Society, which focuses on advocating on the behalf of low-wage workers in New York City. Prior to joining the Employment Law Unit, Lee worked in the Housing Unit in The Legal Society Bronx Neighborhood Office, where he focused on tenants’ rights, and in The Legal Aid Society’s Sandy Disaster Relief Unit. Young received his BA in Political Science/History from New College of Florida and his JD from New York University School of Law.
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    Julia Rosner (Speaker)

    Julia Price Rosner is the employment law specialist at Manhattan Legal Services where she coordinates the city-wide UI program, the UI Coalition and the city-wide Robin Hood UI program. She also oversees Single Stop USA at Henry Street Settlement. She was born in New Rochelle, NY and earned her law degree from the City University of New York School of Law and a Master of Science from Bank Street College of Education. Her previous posts include teacher and staff developer for the NYC Department of Education. She was presented with the Outstanding Legal Advocacy Award by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill for her adult home impact litigation and advocacy.
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    Victor Brito (Speaker)

    Victor Brito started at Manhattan Legal Services as a Paralegal in the Housing Unit working on investigating, preparing and filing claims for tenants of Pinnacle Group who had been subjected to rent overcharges and harassment as part of an administrative process for adjudication of a federal class action lawsuit settlement overseen. Victor Brito is currently the Paralegal in our Unemployment Unit and prevails in cases where the employer was represented by an attorney and has won seemingly impossible hearings. His successful advocacy has provided hundreds of thousands of dollars of critically needed benefits to our clients. Mr. Brito is also an active member of the Unemployment Insurance Coalition and presented information for the critical need for court certified interpreters at UI hearings so that they received proper interpretation in order to protect their rights. As a result, the Department of Labor was told to investigate how interpretation is provided at hearings and make certain, among other things that the ALJs were complying with good LEP practices.