President Joe Biden called on Congress to intervene to avoid a strike that he said would ‘devastate our economy.’
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The country’s reliance on ‘at-will’ employment means that companies face few restrictions when they want to downsize their workforces.
Research shows that workers rarely call out unethical behavior or even just operational problems, in large part because they fear serious consequences.
The author, who died Sept. 1, 2022, inspired countless researchers to probe the injustices working people face.
The immigration decline over the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic led to an annual 1.1% GDP reduction, an economist estimates.
After studying this #MeToo problem for years, two researchers have drafted a toolkit to help nonprofits address it.
Successful union drives at two of America’s biggest companies were led by committed individuals, rather than established unions.
Nearly all of the 129 aid workers killed on the job in 2021 were from the countries where they lost their lives.
A sports economist explains how the deal leaves players with a fundamentally different – and in many ways, worse – arrangement than their counterparts in the other major US sports leagues.
Before the Civil War, US activists sought to combat slavery through sugar boycotts. Instead, consumption grew.
Union membership has dwindled over the past five decades. But could a flurry of positive headlines over union drives help reverse this trend?
Employment and wages soared in the latest labor report, but that’s small comfort for the many workers with a job that doesn’t pay a living wage.
While women felt more included when they perceived male colleagues as allies, men who saw themselves that way reported more personal growth as a result.
While noncompetes may make sense for well-paid executives who possess trade secrets, they make less sense for low-paid workers – yet many are subject to the agreements.
Workers who filed complaints faced retaliation and rarely got a favorable result from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
An experimental study found that the vast majority of women didn’t support a pay policy that corrected for an advantage they received, slightly more than men in the same position.
The wealthy textile manufacturer harbored ambitions that went far beyond the well-being of his own workforce and depleted his fortune.
Polls have consistently found robust support for this benefit, with a growing share of the public approving of paid time off for dads.
Can companies legally require workers to get vaccinated? Employers have gotten so good at finding ways to get employees to comply with their policies that it may not matter.
Single mothers need more of a break than they get under current laws.
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