Is this an opportune time to ask for a raise? Or, given the recent spate of tech layoffs, is it better to lie low for a while? The good news: Employers are giving pay raises. The increase in wages over the past year climbed to 5.1%, from 4.9% in the prior month, the Labor Department…
As the economy added another 263,000 jobs and the unemployment rate ticked down in September, the jobs report also showed that the share of workers telecommuting because of the pandemic continued edging down, falling to 5.2% from 6.5% the previous month. The statistic about COVID-19-induced work-from-home keeps telling the story how America’s white collar workers…
Imagine the scorching sun at your back as a farm laborer or a construction worker outdoors in late summer, or being engulfed in punishing heat as a warehouse or kitchen staffer without access to air conditioning. That’s the reality for essential workers across the U.S. Yet the country lacks a specific federal rule for protecting…
Norma Flores López was 12 when she began working 10- to 12-hour days, every day of the week. Because that grueling work occurred on a farm, it was allowed. Kids in the U.S. can take on unlimited hours of agricultural labor so long as they don’t miss school and have a parent’s permission. López told…
Rent prices are helping to fuel inflation, new government data shows, seeing their largest monthly increase in more than three decades. The consumer price index jumped by a stunning 9.1% in June from a year earlier, according to a Wednesday report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And while a lot of the blame is…