A severe labor shortage is set to emerge over the next decade amid a wave of baby boomer retirements and a shrinking younger workforce.

Summer is the busiest time of the year for immigrant day laborers outside Home Depot, picking up jobs as roofers, painters and construction workers. But the usual crowd of both legal and undocumented ...

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By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits increased ...

How many graduates of Buena Vista Elementary and Lowell High School in San Francisco have become labor book authors? Probably not many–other than Eric Blanc, whose mother taught in that city’s public ...

Americans looking for employment have one more thing to worry about: the workers who are holding onto their jobs with an iron grip. People's willingness to leave their jobs is widely seen as a ...

Labor’s decline over the past half century has devastated working-class communities, undermined democracy, and deepened the grip of big business over our work lives, our political system, and our ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Department of Labor has issued new principles tailored to workplaces utilizing artificial intelligence that focus on worker ...

Fearing roundups, many immigrants are staying home. Construction, agriculture, senior care and hospitality employers say labor shortages will worsen. By Rebecca Davis O’Brien and Miriam Jordan Rebecca ...