Many people left their jobs amid the pandemic, but experts found workers are actually switching jobs to find more flexible environments.
A lack of correctional officers across the country is expected to worsen, but South Carolina is making changes to recruit and retain more workers.
New laws mean more employers are required to share salary data with prospective employees.
| Scripps News Staff
Companies are still seeking more workers and are hanging on tightly to the ones they have.
| AP and Scripps News Staff
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, between 2016 and 2026 there has been and will be a shortfall of six million engineers, or more.
The Federal Trade Commission shares warning signs as scammers are going to great lengths to get job seekers' personal information.
| John Matarese
A paper by the Chicago Federal Reserve shows that job switching boosted inflation an extra percentage point as people were able to garner higher pay.
| Daniel Grossman
When retailers like Amazon deliver on their speedy shipping promises, it’s good news for consumers. But it can compromise workplace safety.
For people who served prison time, the unemployment rate is 60% from the time of their release until four years later.
| Vanessa Misciagna
The jobs being eliminated "cut across Alphabet, product areas, functions, levels and regions," Google head Sundar Pichai said.
| AP
French workers would have to work longer before receiving a pension under the new rules — with the retirement age rising from 62 to 64.
| AP and Scripps News Staff
Quiet hiring is when employers acquire new skills without taking on more employees — typically by stretching existing employees' workloads.
Companies like Coinbase, Transunion, and Netflix offer unlimited PTO or taking as much time off as you want as long as the work gets done.
| Scripps News Staff
In the first 16 days of this year, more than 24,000 employees have been laid off in the tech industry, according to an analysis from Layoffs.
| Daniel Grossman
Some companies are leaning hard into letting workers keep flexibility by hiring for remote-only roles.
The New York City nurses strike highlighted staffing and working conditions issues in hospitals across the country.
The agreement with two major hospitals includes enforceable staffing ratios, community health improvements and partnerships to recruit local nurses.
| AP
As some American industries turn to layoffs to counter costs, workers on visas face having to leave the U.S. unless they get re-hired within 60 days.
The walkout involves as many as 3,500 nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and about 3,600 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.
| AP
3DPX is a 3D printing company making thousands of different parts each year out of plastic and metal. It's called additive manufacturing.
| Eli Kintisch
Applications for unemployment aid for the week ending Dec. 24 climbed 9,000 to 225,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
| AP
Jobless claims for the week ending Dec. 17 inched up by 2,000 to 216,000 from the previous week’s 214,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
| AP
Strikes at 100 Starbucks stores are causing some closures and some instances of reduced staff to keep things running.
Applications for jobless claims fell to 211,000 for the week ending Dec. 10, down by 20,000 from the previous week, the Labor Department reported.
| AP
The New York City Fire Department says at least 200 fires and six deaths were caused by lithium batteries on electric bikes in 2022.
Former Disney Channel actress Christy Carlson Romano shares why she's advocating for child labor reform in entertainment.
Robots are already changing the way we commute, deliver goods, care for patients, and even what we do in the bedroom.
| Bianca Facchinei and Eli Kintisch
The U.S. doesn't guarantee paid sick leave, and health experts say that impacts a whole community's ability to stay healthy.
Applications for unemployment benefits rose to 230,000 for the week ending Dec. 3, up by 4,000 from the previous week, the Labor Department reported.
| AP
The Democratic president has staked his legacy in large part on major investments in technology and infrastructure that were approved by Congress.
| AP
With not enough people available to fill jobs, businesses are having to offer higher pay to attract and keep workers.
| AP and Ben Schamisso
The Labor Department said Thursday that 1.61 million people were receiving jobless aid the week that ended Nov. 19, up 57,000 from the week before.
| AP
A LinkedIn study found the short tenure rate is up almost 10% in the past year.
The measure passed by a vote of 290-137 and now heads to the Senate. If approved there, it will be signed by President Joe Biden.
| AP and Scripps News Staff
