New York City has become the latest city to adopt a paid sick leave law, and it will affect up to 500,000 more employees.The law impacts companies with five or more employees who work more than 80 hours during the calendar year in NYC
The weekly U.S. unemployment claims increased for the seven days ending July 26, according to the Department of Labor. The jobless claims increase follows a 14-year low.
After acquiring Nokia in September, the company has had to reassess and determine how to make Microsoft leaner and fit to compete with competitors like Apple and Google.
Drop in claims possibly points to a strengthening labor market In the first week of July, initial claims for unemployment benefits in the U. S. fell to the third-lowest level this year, and could signal an improving labor market, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.
Job openings in the U.S. have hit its highest levels in seven years. According to the Department of Labor, more than 4.6 million job openings were available during May, an increase from 4.5 million during April.
Unemployment dropped to 6.1 percent, numbers not seen since 2008. The U. S. economy has seen unprecedented job growth this year and that will benefit both the economy and the unemployed if the trend continues.
Fewer Americans filed unemployment claims last week. First-time jobless claims for the week ending June 14 fell 6,000 from the previous week. A total of 312,000 Americans filed unemployment claims for the first time last week, the Labor Department reported on Thursday.
Last month, the U.S. saw its unemployment rate drop to its lowest level since before the recession in 2008 as it went down from 6.7 percent in March to 6.3 percent.
On any given day around the U.S. more than 100,000 men and women can be found looking for work on selected street corners commonly known in the Hispanic community as "paradas."
Advocates for the side of raising the minimum wage in the recent national debate are taking their cause on the road Monday as Americans United for Change kick off its "Give America a Raise" bus tour.
During the last few years, environmentalists, activists and some landowners have protested the Keystone XL pipeline extension from Alberta, Canada's oil sands to Port Arthur, Texas because of fear that it could it cause environmental degradation to the farmlands in the Midwest.
“Latinos are taking all of our jobs” is a statement that’s been disproven time-and-time again, but indisputable evidence that the contrary is true comes in the form of proof that immigrants are keen entrepreneurs, actually offering more jobs to the American job market, helping to enhance the local and national economy.
