A record 3.2 million Americans filed claims for unemployment benefits last week – nearly five times the previous benchmark set during the 1982 recession – as the Covid-19 pandemic wreaks havoc on the U.S. and global economies.
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The raging coronavirus pandemic is first and foremost a global public health crisis. But as countries shut down their entire economic systems in response, business owners, workers and economists are all beginning to fret that the world is poised on the brink of a financial crisis.
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Asparagus grower Henning Hoffheinz is looking at blue skies, a record-early harvest – and a big problem.
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A federal judge has denied a bid by freelance journalists and photographers to block parts of a California labor law designed to require gig economy companies to offer employee status and benefits to their workers.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Thursday that workers cannot negotiate away their right to compensation for time spent putting on and taking off protective gear and walking to and from their workstations.
Read moreThe Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center seeks a federal injunction to prevent Teamsters Local 959 dba Alaska Medical Employees Association from striking during the coronavirus epidemic.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire accused Amazon on Thursday of placing “unacceptable” pressure on employees after unions said the retailer will not pay staff who refuse to go in to work fearing coronavirus contagion.
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At its worst projections, the toll of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 on global unemployment could eclipse the 2008 financial crisis, the United Nations’ International Labor Organization estimated in a preliminary report Wednesday.
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In a report that doesn’t reflect the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the economy, the government said Tuesday that the number of open jobs rose to 7 million in January.
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By a close vote, with some 500 union members not participating, NFL players approved a new labor agreement with the league. It features a 17-game regular season, higher salaries, increased roster sizes and larger pensions for current and former players.
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California has asked the Ninth Circuit to block a Trump administration decision that prevents the state from enforcing its stricter meal and rest break labor rules for bus drivers.
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As COVID-19 spreads from coast to coast, the U.S. remains the only industrialized nation without mandated paid sick days and experts warned lawmakers Wednesday that some people infected with the coronavirus may feel like they have to go to work to make ends meet.
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American employers added 273,000 jobs last month, signaling that the coronavirus outbreak has not yet affected the U.S. labor market.
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The First Circuit appeared highly conflicted Wednesday as to whether private-sector unions can ever force members to subsidize lobbying.
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Less than a month after the D.C. Circuit struck down Arkansas’ work requirements for recipients of Medicaid, a federal judge in the nation’s capital invalidated Michigan’s same rules for the health care program.
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China is transferring tens of thousands of Uighur detainees out of internment camps and into factories that supply some of the world’s leading brands, an Australian think tank said Monday.
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Freelance journalists may soon breathe a sigh of relief after California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez announced amendments had been made to her controversial independent contractor law by removing the cap on the number of submissions freelancers could send to an outlet.
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One of the nation’s largest labor unions is unveiling plans to invest $150 million in a nationwide campaign to defeat President Trump, a sweeping effort focused on eight battleground states and voters of color who often do not vote.
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A coalition of attorneys general from Democrat-controlled states sued the Trump administration Wednesday to block the rollback of an Obama-era standard for determining whether workers are jointly employed by affiliated companies.
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The San Diego City Attorney announced Tuesday that a state court judge has found grocery delivery company Instacart likely violates state employment laws by misclassifying its grocery shoppers as independent contractors, eschewing paying its employees benefits.
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