Employment+Services

By the passage of the unemployment compensation law, the Twenty-fourth State Legislature, 1937, created the Unemployment Compensation Commission of Wyoming; the commission to consist of three members, one to be the commissioner of labor, who is chairman of the committee, the other two to be appointed by the governor for a term of six years each; by this act, the State Employment Service, created in 1933, was transferred to the said commission as a division thereof; each of these divisions, the Unemployment Compensation Commission of Wyoming, and the State Employment Service, to act under one full time executive director, but each division to be responsible for the discharge of its distinctive functions. The office to be located at Casper, Wyoming.
 * Wyoming State Employment Service **

By the passage of the Wyoming employment security law, the Twenty-sixth State Legislature, 1941, created the Employment Security Commission of Wyoming, to consist of three members, one to be the commissioner of labor, chairman of the commission, and in charge of the office thereof; two other members appointed by the governor to hold office for six years. This same act provided for the changing of the name of the Wyoming unemployment compensation law to the Wyoming employment security law; the Unemploy­ment Compensation Commission of Wyoming, to the Employment Security Commission of Wyoming, etc.; this law also established, under this new com­mission and under a single full-time executive to be appointed on a non-partisan merit basis, two coordinate divisions: The Wyoming State Employment Service Division, and the Wyoming Unemployment Compensation Division, both of which are subject to the supervision, direction. and control of the Em­ployment Security Commission of Wyoming. Each division to be responsible for the discharge of its distinctive functions.

=Executive Directors=
 * ~ Name ||~  ||~ Start Date ||~   ||~ End Date ||
 * Harry W. Fox ||  || 1937 ||   || February 23, 1939 ||
 * J.W. Williams ||  || February 23, 1939 ||   || December 31, 1940 ||
 * Thomas A. Nichols ||  || December 31, 1940 ||   || February 1943 ||