News about work, workers and wages.
Data indicate that the number of businesses owned by women have increased 43 percent in the last decade. Behind each of those data points lay ambition, ideas and hard work.
The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics says the number of job openings in the United States in April, 5.4 million, is the most on record since they began tracking the measure in late 2000.
If you’ve time and a modest application fee and it’s a day other than Sunday, you can probably drop in today to take a civil service test.
The legislative session in Albany comes to an end in the next few weeks, but one battle that won’t end anytime soon is the fight over whether to reform New York’s Scaffold Safety Law. That debate has been playing out for a while, and here is your handy guide to the two sides.
Family finances, child health and mother-child attachment are affected when a mother lacks access to paid maternity leave, according to the new research.
Having energy and doing your homework about the firms you’ll meet are more important than your resume, two recruiters tell is in video interviews.
It’s an era of criminal justice reform and a growing consensus that we’ve put too many people behind bars. But two experts say that hasn’t made it any easier for people caught in the incarceration wave to find employment on the outside.
Mayor de Blasio says his housing plan will create good jobs as well as affordable places to live. But limited city oversight of subcontractors, who can change their names after legal trouble or bad publicity, hampers the administration’s ability to deliver on that promise. See which contractors are currently subject to special review for labor practices.
Manhattan’s Helen Rosenthal says her resolution declaring New York City a ‘TPP-Free Zone,’ while purely symbolic, would send an important message.
The measure declaring New York a “TPP-Free Zone” is part of an effort to rein in the Obama administration as it negotiates a huge trade deal.
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