The nation's new jobless claims were fewer than 200,000 for the week ending on Saturday, marking the third straight week that ...

Jan 15 (Reuters) - Perdue Farms and a staffing agency will pay more than $4 million to settle claims that they employed children in hazardous jobs at a chicken processing facility in Virginia, the U.S ...

Why won't there be an October jobs report? The Labor Department released a September jobs report this week that beat expectations, but the department also said it won't release an October jobs report ...

Next to rising costs, the biggest complaint from American business is the shortage of workers. According to surveys conducted regularly by the Institute of Supply Management, unmet labor needs have ...

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Initial jobless claims — the number of people who apply for state unemployment benefits — fell by 16,000 to a seasonally adjusted 199,000 in the week ended Dec. 27, the Labor Department said Wednesday ...

Tyson Foods and Perdue Farms are facing federal investigations into whether migrant children are among those cleaning slaughterhouses owned by two of the nation's biggest poultry producers. The ...

The Labor Department has opened inquiries into whether migrant children were working inside slaughterhouses owned by the poultry-processing giants. By Hannah Dreier Hannah has spent the past year and ...

The Department of Labor announced on Monday it is sending staff to Minnesota to investigate concerns about fraud in the state’s Unemployment Insurance Program. The department’s decision to authorize ...

Labor Day falls annually on the first Monday in September, and is characterized by the U.S. Department of Labor as a day to mark "the social and economic achievements of American workers." Why is ...