Tennessee Sends Job Centers to Hurricane Hit Areas

The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development deployed two mobile American Job Centers early Wednesday morning to assist with Hurricane Florence recovery efforts in South Carolina.
Teams departed from Nashville and Knoxville and will travel to a staging area in Columbia, S.C. The South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce will then assign the mobile job centers to areas of the state affected by Hurricane Florence. Tennessee staffers will work alongside South Carolina staffers helping South Carolinians who are out of work due to the storm file for disaster unemployment insurance.
Tennessee’s mobile job centers can bring a majority of services offered at a brick-and-mortar job center right into the community. This is essential in areas affected by Hurricane Florence which will have a large number of people applying for assistance in the wake of the storm.
The crews going to South Carolina have firsthand experience working in disaster situations. They were dispatched to Pigeon Forge in December 2016 to assist with disaster unemployment insurance benefits following the Gatlinburg wildfires.