Employment

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s economy accelerated last quarter at a strong 2.8% annual pace, with consumers and businesses helping drive growth despite the pressure of continually high interest rates. Thursday’s report from the Commerce Department said the gross domestic... Read More

MOUNT STORM, W.Va. (AP) — Down a long gravel road, tucked into the hills in West Virginia, is a low-slung building where researchers are extracting essential elements from an old coal mine that they hope will strengthen the nation's energy... Read More

LORDSTOWN, Ohio — UAW workers at an Ohio plant that supplies the battery cells for General Motors electric vehicles have overwhelmingly approved a new contract that ensures significant raises and better health and safety protections. The new contract for workers... Read More

DANVILLE, Illinois (AP) — On the south side of Chicago, students learn to work on Rivian electric pickup trucks and SUVs through a new technician program at Olive-Harvey College. About 150 miles (240 kilometers) south, students at Danville Area Community... Read More

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits jumped to its highest level in more than eight months last week in another sign that the labor market may be softening. Unemployment claims for the week ending May 4 rose by... Read More

NEW YORK (AP) — This spring, NBC News, The New York Times and National Public Radio have each dealt with turmoil for essentially the same reason: journalists taking the critical gaze they deploy to cover the world and turning it... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 on Tuesday to ban noncompete agreements, a decades-old vehicle that has prevented untold millions of employees from working for a competitor or starting their own competing businesses after leaving a job. The... Read More

MIAMI (AP) — The social media company founded by former President Donald Trump applied for a business visa program that he sought to restrict during his administration and which many of his allies want him to curtail in a potential second term. Trump Media... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Mine Safety and Health Administration issued a new rule on Tuesday aimed at better protecting the nation’s miners from health hazards associated with exposure to respirable crystalline silica, also known as silica dust.  Inhaling crystalline silica, a... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Friday announced new safeguards intended to bolster job protections for career civil servants. The new rule was issued through the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, which said on its website the measure both “clarifies... Read More

WASHINGTON — Many of us, from time to time, may feel a little “burned out.” Spreading ourselves too thin with work, family, relationships, health and other obligations can take its toll. The term burnout is technically a psychological condition related... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has plans to radically reshape the federal government if he returns to the White House, from promising to deport millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally to abolishing government agencies and firing tens of thousands of workers and replacing... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge cooled further last month even as the economy kept growing briskly, a trend sure to be welcomed at the White House as President Joe Biden seeks re-election in a race that could... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Thursday signed an executive order fulfilling his promise to provide civilian federal workers with an average 5.2% pay raise starting in mid-January. Biden had proposed the bump in salaries in the 2024 budget proposal... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is aiming to use a visit to the battleground state of Wisconsin on Wednesday to spotlight a surge in federal government support for Black-owned small businesses during his White House tenure and to highlight... Read More

WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has introduced legislation in the House aimed at reinstating pilots who were fired or forced to resign due to COVID-19 vaccination mandates. A companion bill is being sponsored in the Senate by Sen.... Read More

DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union turned up the heat on General Motors as 5,000 workers walked off their jobs Tuesday at a highly profitable SUV factory in Arlington, Texas. The move comes just a day after the... Read More

WASHINGTON — Working adults who suffer from “poor well-being” are twice as likely as their “high well-being” counterparts to report coming down with a new chronic condition, according to a new analysis by Gallup. While the analysis itself on first... Read More

WASHINGTON — Pharmacists at dozens of Walgreens and CVS locations across the U.S. have staged walkouts this month to protest what they say are unsafe working conditions in their pharmacies. And more could be on the way, say organizers of... Read More

WASHINGTON — Companies thinking about using AI to take advantage of efficiencies in the hiring process were put on notice earlier this year when the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission settled its first-ever AI discrimination-in-hiring lawsuit, reaching an agreement with... Read More

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Picketing began Wednesday morning at Kaiser Permanente hospitals as some 75,000 health care workers go on strike in Virginia, California and three other states over wages and staffing shortages, marking the latest major labor unrest in... Read More

WASHINGTON — In a bid to further kick-start the green economy that is key to both his climate and economic plan, President Joe Biden on Wednesday used his executive powers to create the American Climate Corps, the nation’s first large-scale... Read More

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose in morning trading on Wall Street Tuesday as two economic reports suggested the economy is cooling enough for the Federal Reserve to pause hiking interest rates. The S&P 500 rose 0.7%, adding to the... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A half-century ago, the nation's top health experts urged the federal agency in charge of mine safety to adopt strict rules protecting miners from poisonous rock dust. The inaction since — fueled by denials and lobbying from coal... Read More

WASHINGTON — As long swaths of smoke from Canada’s wildfires made a second pass over the eastern seaboard this week, workforce advocates were again calling for urgent action to be taken to protect the nation’s workers from the growing effects... Read More

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case likely to determine what protections are afforded to employees who allege they were involuntarily transferred within the workplace based on discriminatory bias.  The underlying lawsuit, Muldrow v. City... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday used the case of a Christian mailman who didn't want to work Sundays to solidify protections for workers who ask for religious accommodations. In a unanimous decision the justices made clear that workers who... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that corporations can be sued in any state where they do business instead of only the place where an injury or damages occur. The ruling was issued in the lawsuit of a Virginia... Read More

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Consumer products company 3M Co. this week reached a settlement that could grow to $12.5 billion over its use of so-called forever chemicals, or PFAS, that contaminated U.S. drinking water sources. It is the largest settlement over... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Department of Energy is investing up to $13.5 million in job training partnerships to bolster the solar energy industry in 13 states. In a press release explaining the initiative, administration officials said the effort is particularly geared... Read More