From today’s Washington Post: The White House on Thursday will propose merging the Education and Labor departments into one federal agency, the centerpiece of a plan to remake a bureaucracy…
From Bloomberg News Network: Thanks to a web of loopholes and limits, the federal government has been green-lighting hourly pay of just $7.25 for some construction workers laboring on taxpayer-funded…
From today’s New York Times: Seizing on a longtime ambition of many Republicans, President Trump on Friday overhauled rules affecting at least two million federal workers, making it easier to…
From today’s New York Times: Prominent Democrats — stung by their eroding support from working-class voters but buoyed by the deficit-be-damned approach of ruling Republicans — are embracing a big…
From today’s New York Times: The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that companies can use arbitration clauses in employment contracts to prohibit workers from banding together to take legal action…
From today’s New York Times: Anyone with a cellphone should have paid attention to the big merger news on April 29: T-Mobile and Sprint announced their intention to tie the…
From today’s Los Angeles Times: A massive labor strike across the University of California on Monday forced medical centers to reschedule more than 12,000 surgeries, cancer treatments and appointments, and…
From today’s New York Times: I am ashamed to say that until recently I was part of the majority: I am the chief executive of a company that gave different…
From today’s Los Angeles Times: In a ruling that could change the workplace status of people across the state, the California Supreme Court made it harder Monday for employers to…
From the New York Times “Opinion” Section by Eric Loomis: Employment numbers may look solid now, but economists, physicists and industrial engineers all say that automation will, in the not-so-distant…