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Is money the secret to getting Gen Z talking? The U.K.’s national data crunchers reveal their latest tricks for finding out what makes them tick
Gen Zers are known for being hard to get hold of. Ever tried calling one on the phone? It’s a…
Janitors hired to clean a meat plant operated by $11 billion Perdue Farms used children for the work, regulators said
A Tennessee-based sanitation company has agreed to pay more than half a million dollars after a federal investigation found it…
Softer jobs report could ease pressure on inflation, but ‘one month does not make a trend,’ Glenmede says
The April jobs report came in below economists’ expectations, giving them hope a softer labor market could ease pressure on…
Disneyland performers unionizing often work other gigs in movies and TV or at theme-park rivals like Universal Studios
During three years of working as a parade performer at the Disneyland Resort in Southern California, Zach Elefante always has had…
Biden’s labor secretary touts auto union’s win in the South: ‘That choice belongs to the workers’
Workers at auto plants in the South should be free to unionize without pressure from employers or anti-union governors, acting…
Idaho might be known for its potato chips, but the Biden administration is making a big bet on a different…
Flight attendants at Southwest Airlines have ratified a contract that includes pay raises totaling more than 33% over four years,…
After shrugging off a $355 million first-quarter loss, Boeing has to slog through the mud of fresh allegations it retaliated against workers
Fresh off questions about the structural integrity of its airplanes, Boeing is now battling multiple accusations that it shut down…
H1-B visas are the lifeblood of U.S. tech innovation–and the shortcut to semiconductor supremacy
In December, Samsung delayed a Texas-based chip manufacturing facility’s start date. In January, the Taiwanese chip manufacturing company TSMC pushed back one of its…
Immigration, productivity, inflation: Why finding the pandemic’s ‘missing women’ could be the solution to almost every challenge facing the U.S. economy today
In the face of sticky inflation and a persistently tight labor market, policymakers and economists have proposed various solutions, from…