The percentage of unemployed managers and executives relocating for new positions fell to a record low in the third quarter, according to analysis by Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The relocation rate for the last four quarters …
America’s bedraggled labor market got a boost today with the latest weekly initial jobless claims unexpectedly plunging 21,000 to 434,000. The four-week moving average also fell. While it’s only one week’s data, the report is a…
A lack of staff in the face of overwhelming volume is the excuse banks give for turning to robo-signers to speed foreclosures, and for their inability to manage the the mortgage modification process. Now, a class action against…
Unemployment payments have probably kept millions of people from living on the streets and starving during this recession. So naturally, the benefits are to blame for the high unemployment rate. Or so argues Harvard professor R…
Low pay, lack of benefits and other issues drove Ayo Collins and three other Jimmy John’s workers to enlist the aid of the Chicago-based Industrial Workers of the World to help organize 10 targeted Minneapolis stores. The effor…