Tag: Labor

Republican lawmakers are considering a pro-business bill to nullify the Obama administration's efforts to expand the legal definition of "joint employer." (AP Photo/Jason Reed, pool)

GOP considering new legislation to ease Obama’s labor policy

Sean Higgins · May 5, 2017 7:37 pm

As the latest jobs report comes out Friday, the five fastest-growing sectors in the 12 months prior have been: temporary help, professional and technical services, construction, education and healthcare. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Jobs bounce back in April at 211,000, unemployment falls to 4.4 percent

Joseph Lawler · May 5, 2017 12:31 pm

Federal law allows OSHA inspectors to have worker representatives accompany them during inspections. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

OSHA no longer allowing unions to accompany inspections

Sean Higgins · May 4, 2017 8:10 pm

The lawsuit alleges that Sen. Harris abused her authority as California's attorney general. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. Kamala Harris likely to face lawsuit over California attorney general conduct

Sean Higgins · May 4, 2017 7:26 pm

A new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office confirms that federal government bureaucrats are compensated more generously than average Americans in the private sector, the people who actually fund government. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Beltway Confidential

Working-class Americans are subsidizing government union largesse

Akash Chougule · May 4, 2017 1:38 pm

Forecasters expected jobless claims to dip to 246,000, adjusted for seasonal variations, after unexpectedly rising to 257,000 the week before. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

New jobless claims plunge to 238,000, fewest getting benefits in 28 years

Joseph Lawler · May 4, 2017 12:31 pm

House passes comp time bill

Sean Higgins · May 2, 2017 10:08 pm

A security officer chases a man waving an American flag moments before the start of the May Day march in Havana, Cuba, Monday, May 1, 2017. Plainclothes officers struggled to control the man but eventually lifted him off the ground and hauled him away in front of foreign and Cuban journalists. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

Beltway Confidential

In visceral display of freedom, Cuban runner with American flag sprints in front of Raul Castro on May Day

Philip Wegmann · May 1, 2017 7:18 pm

Here's a look at the agencies that would see increases and decreases under the bill, compared to 2016 funding levels. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Who’s up, who’s down in the GOP’s spending plan

Pete Kasperowicz · May 1, 2017 4:07 pm

Liberals for Capital, Conservatives for Labor?

Jay Cost · May 1, 2017 10:00 am

Philip Miscimarra, the new chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, is still in the minority because the other two current board members, Mark Pearce and Lauren McFerran, are Democrats.

New NLRB Chairman Philip Miscimarra expected to undo recent pro-union changes

Sean Higgins · May 1, 2017 4:01 am

Express Scripts, a Fortune 100 prescription delivery company, plans to close a local facility that employs about 200 workers. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Laid-off employees implore Trump: ‘Save our jobs’

Joel Gehrke · April 30, 2017 2:18 am