The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) showed that layoffs rose slightly. The number of Americans quitting their ...

U.S. retail sales increased more than expected in August as consumers bought a range of goods and dined out, but a weakening ...

Most of the world observes International Workers’ Day on May 1 or the first Monday in May each year, but not the United States and Canada. Instead, Americans and Canadians have celebrated Labor Day as ...

The American labor market is reaching a critical turning point that could tighten labor availability in rural industries and slow growth across the U.S. economy. A new quarterly report from CoBank’s ...

The number of Americans applying for jobless aid last week retreated significantly after surging to a nearly four-year high a ...

Job growth has slowed sharply over the last five months. Tariffs and immigration policy are among factors that have weighed ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters -The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits fell last week, but the labor ...

DALLAS (AP) — From barbecues to getaways to shopping the sales, many people across the U.S. mark Labor Day — the federal holiday celebrating the American worker — by finding ways to relax. The holiday ...

Incarcerated people in the US are routinely forced to work for low pay or no pay, while state governments are saving billions of dollars—and private corporations are making billions of ...

The Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics, under fire for recent sharp downward revisions to U.S. nonfarm payrolls ...

From public good to moral evil: state laws and child labor in the 1800s -- Divided, we fall: the Beveridge-Parsons bill -- Regulating child labor as interstate commerce: the Keating-Owen act and ...

Jeffrey Sklansky is a member of UIC United Faculty, the labor union representing the bargaining units of Tenure/Tenure-Track and full-time Non-Tenure Track faculty at the University of Illinois ...