Tag: Labor

In this photo illustration an old age pensioner checks what is left of her weekly state pension on November 6, 2008, in Conwy, Wales. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Pension agency issues rules for helping troubled multi-employer pension plans

Sean Higgins · June 17, 2015 6:37 pm

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, center, joins members of the City Council and community leaders in a photo after he signed into law an ordinance that will gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020, in at Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Los Angeles, Saturday, June 13, 2015. The ordinance makes Los Angeles the largest city in the U.S. to gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

LA’s new $15 minimum wage could cost county residents $30m annually

Sean Higgins · June 16, 2015 4:01 am

The National Labor Relations Board ruled in 2004 that it had authority over tribal casinos, reversing decades of precedent. (AP File Photo)

Congress mulls federal labor exception for Indian tribes

Sean Higgins · June 16, 2015 12:05 am

Gina Dominique, lower left, who came from Haiti, takes the oath of U.S. citizenship during a naturalization ceremony. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Good immigration policy is good economic policy

Nathan Rubbelke · June 15, 2015 4:01 am

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs speaks during his daily news briefing in 2011, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Business snagging top Obama strategists

Sean Higgins · June 15, 2015 4:01 am

Wal-Mart employees stock items in a new 142,000 square foot Wal-Mart store on September 26, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois the day before it opens on September 27. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images)

Poor scheduling practices harm D.C. service workers

Kelly Cohen · June 12, 2015 4:33 pm

LA mayor says no exceptions to minimum wage

Sean Higgins · June 12, 2015 4:01 am

The U.S. Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits during the week ending June 6 on Thursday, June 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Jobless claims at 279,000 in first week of June

Joseph Lawler · June 11, 2015 12:35 pm

A city office employee works into the night as darkness closes in on October 10, 2005 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Businesses prepare for Obama’s new overtime rule

Sean Higgins · June 10, 2015 9:00 am

Back to Work for Biden

Daniel Halper · June 9, 2015 10:05 pm

McDonald's Corp. has hired former White House spokesman Robert Gibbs to be its new top public relations official. (AP File Photo)

McDonald’s hires former Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs

Sean Higgins · June 9, 2015 8:49 pm

"This decision is an important victory not only for our taxpayers who simply cannot afford these unsustainably high costs, but for limited, constitutional government..." Chris Christie said in a statement. (AP Photo)Â

Court OKs Christie’s plan to trim New Jersey pensions

Sean Higgins · June 9, 2015 5:31 pm