Labor Day 2020 has an unfortunate cloud hanging over it: a high U.S. unemployment rate, even as the nation engages in its annual celebration of...
The number of Americans who filed for jobless claims fell to its the lowest number since the pandemic began in March, better than analysts’ expectations,...
Private-sector employment went up by 428,000 jobs last month, said the ADP National Employment Report. That’s an improvement over the previous month’s 167,000 jobs, but...
Staggered reopenings. Tourism booms that might prove temporary. Each U.S. business vertical hard-hit by the pandemic has been impacted in different ways. For those companies...
Uber Technologies Inc., facing a Thursday (Aug. 20) deadline to reclassify its freelance drivers in California as employees, is considering licensing its brand to independently...
The nation’s economy added 1.8 million jobs in July, slightly better than analysts’ expectations, while the unemployment rate fell to 10.2 percent, the U.S. Labor...
Already reeling from the coronavirus, Uber’s and Lyft’s fortunes now face another big hit as California’s top labor official takes the ridesharing services to court...
COVID-19 and the shutdowns enacted to combat the virus deprived the world’s workers of the equivalent of 480 million 40-hour-a-week jobs during the past three...
Indicators say the coronavirus pandemic devastated consumer’s confidence in April as business and labor market conditions declined. The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index fell in...