Tag: Labor

Private-sector forecasters had expected jobless claims to drop back to 255,000. (Bob Andres/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Total unemployment benefit claims fall to lowest level since 2000

Joseph Lawler · October 27, 2016 12:31 pm

House panel tells Tom Perez to hand over documents, with redactions if necessary, or lawyer up. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Labor Dept. stalling on joint employer inquiry, committee says

Sean Higgins · October 26, 2016 9:19 pm

The other $2.2 million loan will be used to train drone operators and make a five-county region in the southwestern region of the state into "a national destination for the development of a drone-operator workforce." (AP Photo)

Obama aims to turn coal country into drone country

John Siciliano · October 26, 2016 8:29 pm

"I want you to tell them that he relied on undocumented workers to make his project cheaper," Clinton said of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. "And most of the products in the rooms were made overseas, and he even sued to get his taxes lowered." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Clinton: Trump used undocumented workers to build DC hotel

Pete Kasperowicz · October 26, 2016 4:50 pm

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‘Angry protesters’ to storm D.C. Trump hotel grand opening

Paul Bedard · October 26, 2016 1:27 pm

"Folks, no one should have to sit on the sidelines because of an unnecessary noncompete agreement," Vice President Joe Biden said. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

White House takes on employer ‘noncomplete’ clauses

Sean Higgins · October 25, 2016 8:09 pm

"The work-life needs assessment survey continues OPM's support to develop and sustain an engaged, innovative and productive federal workforce," Office of Personnel Management Acting Director Beth Cobert wrote in a memo to agencies. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obama works to ‘cultivate fulfilling lives’ for federal workers

Pete Kasperowicz · October 25, 2016 7:05 pm

Rule requires contractors to report accusations of labor law violations, even if a court hasn't reviewed them. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Court halts Obama contractor blacklist

Sean Higgins · October 25, 2016 6:46 pm

Business economists not worried about minimum wage hikes, with one huge exception

Joseph Lawler · October 24, 2016 4:01 am

Imagine for a moment a world in which the squeegee men were able to legally demand payment and there wasn't one thing you could do about it. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Beware the squeegee men, South Dakota

Vincent Vernuccio, Jeremy Lott · October 23, 2016 3:32 pm

As Obama's former secretary of state, Clinton could not oppose the current deals the White House was backing without looking disloyal to Obama. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, Pool, File)

Emails: Clinton campaign discussed how best to ‘dodge’ trade questions

Sean Higgins · October 18, 2016 8:55 pm

Emails released by WikiLeaks detail how the campaign plotted to make it look as though new details about TPP forced her to switch her stance on the bill — well before those details were available to the public or the campaign. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Clinton emails reveal use of ‘platitudes’ on union issues

Sean Higgins · October 17, 2016 9:34 pm