Tag: Labor

States sue to stop expansion of cheaper insurance plans

Robert King · July 26, 2018 6:59 pm

Job seekers get information at a job fair in Sunrise, Fla. The Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims on Thursday.

Jobless claims hover near 50-year lows

Joseph Lawler · July 26, 2018 8:32 am

FILE- In this March 3, 2015 photo, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers escort an arrestee in an apartment building, in the Bronx borough of New York, during a series of early-morning raids. New York City leaders are trying to strike a balance between purging dangerous criminals and protecting some of its roughly 500,000 undocumented immigrants.

ICE expects to quadruple worksite inspections in 2018

Anna Giaritelli · July 25, 2018 3:39 pm

Corporations targeted for directing franchise hiring

Sean Higgins · July 24, 2018 4:01 am

Heidi Shierholz, an economist with liberal Economic Policy Institute, argues that as much as $5.8 billion could be taken by employers each year. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Effort to repeal new local wage law is another attack on DC voters

Joel Kanter · July 21, 2018 6:16 pm

Cameron Hinojosa hands a store clerk his resume at the Family Clothes store in Fresno, Calif.

Beltway Confidential

More teens find summer jobs and enjoy the value of work

Bruce Yandle · July 21, 2018 4:00 am

"Attacks on government employees and the civil service in general may make for good politics, but they make for bad government," said the national president of the American Federation of Government Employees. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Protests planned against Trump move to limit union work on government time

Sean Higgins · July 19, 2018 6:36 pm

The unemployment rate is 3.8 percent in the U.S.

Jobless claims fall to the lowest level since 1969

Joseph Lawler · July 19, 2018 12:30 pm

President Trump sits in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

Trump to form new council for American workers with executive order this week

Gabby Morrongiello · July 18, 2018 9:05 pm

Work Is Job One

David Skinner · July 18, 2018 8:55 am

Judge rejects settlement deal in McDonald’s-NLRB ‘joint employer’ lawsuit

Sean Higgins · July 17, 2018 10:47 pm

Apprentice Ryan Buzzy, 18, center, works with Skip Johnson, left, a trainer in STIHL's apprenticeship program, in their training area at the Stihl manufacturing facility, Thursday, May 25, 2017 in Virginia Beach.

Worker retraining needed to maintain growth, White House says

Joseph Lawler · July 17, 2018 8:53 pm