Job Openings and Labor Turnover Report U.S.

Department of Labor
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1 This form requests information about job openings and employee turnover at:
COUNTY:

UI: in
Please check all that apply: Employees are paid
2 each week every two weeks twice a month once a month other
Please provide data for the time period indicated for each item. Enter “0” if none. Enter “NA” if data
3 are not available. See the back of this page for explanations of the terms below.
EMPLOYMENT JOB OPENINGS HIRES SEPARATIONS
Number of full- or A job is open if it A hire is any addition Quits Layoffs and Other
part-time employees meets all three to your payroll, and: (Except Discharges • Retirements
who worked or conditions: • Layoffs
• May be a new hire retirements) • Transfers
received pay for the
• A specific position or a previously • Discharges from this
pay period that
exists separated rehire • Terminations location
includes the 12th of
the month • Work could start • May be permanent, of permanent, • Employee
within 30 days short-term, or short-term, or disability
• You are actively seasonal seasonal
• Deaths
seeking workers from • May be a recall employees
outside this location to from layoff
fill the position
A B C D E F
Total Employment Number of Layoffs and Other
Hires and Recalls
Report for for the pay period Job Openings Quits Discharges Separations
for the entire
month of: that includes the on the last business
month - - - - - - for the entire month - - - - -
12th of the month day of the month

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 IMPORTANT
This form requests information about employees on your payroll at the location shown in Section 1 on the
front of this page. Please follow these instructions as you prepare your information.

Column A Column C
Total Employment Hires and Recalls
for the pay period that includes the 12th of the month. for the entire month.
Report all persons on your payroll who worked or received Report all additions to your payroll during the month.
pay for the pay period that includes the 12th of the month.
INCLUDE:
INCLUDE: • Newly hired and rehired employees
• Full-time and part-time employees • Full-time and part-time employees
• Permanent, short-term, and seasonal employees • Permanent, short-term, and seasonal employees
• Salaried and hourly workers • Employees who were recalled to a job at this location
• Employees on paid vacation or other paid leave following a layoff (formal suspension from pay status)
lasting more than 7 days
DO NOT INCLUDE:
• On-call or intermittent employees who returned to work
• Proprietors and partners of unincorporated businesses
after having been formally separated
• Unpaid family workers
• Workers who were hired and separated during the month
• Employees on strike for the entire pay period
• Transfers from other locations
• Employees on leave without pay for the entire pay
period DO NOT INCLUDE:
• Employees of temporary help agencies, employee • Transfers or promotions within this location
leasing companies, outside contractors, or consultants. • Employees returning from strike
(These employees will be counted by their employer of • Employees of temporary help agencies, employee
record.) leasing companies, outside contractors, or consultants

Column B Columns D, E, and F

Job Openings Separations
on the last business day of the month. for the entire month.
Report all positions that are open (not filled) on the last Report all separations from your payroll during the month.
business day of the month. A job is open only if it meets Report by type of separation.
all three of these conditions:
• A specific position exists and there is work available for • Column D, Quits: Employees who left voluntarily.
that position. The position can be full-time or part-time, Exception: Report retirements or transfers to other
and it can be permanent, short-term, or seasonal, and locations with Other Separations in Column F.
• The job could start within 30 days, whether or not you • Column E, Layoffs and Discharges: Involuntary
find a suitable candidate during that time, and separations initiated by the employer, including:
• You are actively recruiting workers from outside the - Layoffs with no intent to rehire
location shown in Section 1 on the front of this page - Layoffs (formal suspensions from pay status) lasting
What is active recruiting? Active recruiting means your or expected to last more than 7 days. (If the
establishment is taking steps to fill a position. It may employee was later recalled, also include in the Hires
include advertising in newspapers, on television, or on column.)
radio; posting Internet notices; posting "help wanted" - Discharges resulting from mergers, downsizing,
signs; networking or making "word of mouth" or closings
announcements; accepting applications; interviewing - Firings or other discharges for cause
candidates; contacting employment agencies; or - Terminations of permanent or short-term employees
soliciting employees at job fairs, state or local - Terminations of seasonal employees (whether or not
employment offices, or similar sources. they are expected to return next season)
DO NOT INCLUDE:
• Column F, Other Separations: Retirements; transfers
• Positions open only to internal transfers, promotions or
to other locations; separations due to employee
demotions, or recall from layoffs
disability; deaths.
• Openings for positions with start dates more than
30 days in the future DO NOT INCLUDE:
• Positions for which employees have been hired, but the • Transfers within this location
employees have not yet reported for work • Employees on strike
• Positions to be filled by employees of temporary help • Employees of temporary help agencies, employee
agencies, employee leasing companies, outside leasing companies, outside contractors, or consultants
contractors, or consultants

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