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1,300 members of the United Auto Workers union are on strike across three production plants and more could follow. Seth Harris, former top labor official in the Biden and Obama administrations, joins CBS News to unpack the historic autoworkers strike.
The Labor Department proposed a measure Wednesday that would expand overtime eligibility for salaried workers nationwide. Lauren Kaori Gurley, labor reporter for the Washington Post, joins CBS News with a look at the proposal.
The 16 locations add to a growing list of McDonald's restaurants in the Southeast in trouble for child labor abuses.
The nation's labor market continues to defy expectations. Weekly unemployment claims fell to 228,000 last week, and the unemployment rate also slipped to 3.6%. Jeanna Smialek, Federal Reserve and economy reporter for The New York Times, joined CBS News to break down the status of the post-pandemic labor market.
It's being called the "hot labor summer." From Hollywood to hotels, workers have been walking off the job -- recent data from Cornell University shows around 119,000 U.S. workers were on strike as of May. Seth Harris, former acting U.S. Labor Secretary in 2013 under then-President Obama, joins CBS News to discuss what's driving the recent wave of strikes and how increased strike activity could affect the economy.
According to the Labor Department, the U.S. saw a record number of women return to the workforce after the pandemic. Currently, nearly 80% of women between the ages of 25 and 54 are in the labor force. Aki Ito, senior correspondent for Insider, joins CBS News to discuss what's driving the record-breaking numbers and why the trend might not last forever.
Georgia business must pay overtime wages and penalties to the ex-worker who received the pile of coins as his last check.
So-called priest asked employees to confess about being late, if they had stolen or had "bad intentions" toward their employer.
A report of U.S. job cuts showed roughly 5% of job losses in May were due to AI technology.
The Labor Department released data Wednesday that shows there are almost two job openings for every person who has quit or been laid off. Martin Baccardax, senior editor and chief markets correspondent for TheStreet, joins CBS News to break down the latest job numbers.
Six franchise locations in the Reno-area of Nevada committed more than 170 violations, according federal investigators.
The Labor Department's latest report shows employers added 253,000 jobs in April. Daniel Altman, chief economist at Instawork, breaks down the findings.
The U.S. added 253,000 jobs in April, according to a report released Friday by the Labor Department, well above estimates from economists. Unemployment also fell to 3.4%, and wages were also higher. Ed O'Keefe has the details.
The children sometimes worked as late as 2 a.m. and one of the children was allowed to operate a deep fryer, Department of Labor investigators found.
Democrats in Congress want to bar businesses with serious records of child exploitation from USDA contracts.
The resolution would have nixed a Labor Department rule over how retirement plan managers pick investments.
Strike activity surged 50% in 2022, as workers clamored for higher pay, safer work conditions or recognition.
A large number of American men between 25 and 54 years old are not working or even looking for work.
CBS News consumer correspondent Ash-Har Quraishi investigates failures in systems designed to protect victims of wage theft.
U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh said the department needs to do more to try to reclaim money owed to workers due to wage theft.
Hiring was stronger than economists had forecast, while the unemployment rate fell to 3.5%.
Policymakers are looking for signs the red-hot hiring market has slowed down, but will hope to avoid a crash.
DOL rescinded a Trump administration rule that had eased ways for companies to claim their workers weren't employees.
Jobless rate fell to 6.3% last month, but the gains went to white-collar employees while service workers struggled.
Hiring fell for the first time in seven months as restaurants, bars and other businesses closed their doors.
President Trump said Tuesday he's "very unhappy" after Israel's military targeted members of Hamas in Qatar's capital of Doha.
Democrat James Walkinshaw will defeat Republican Stewart Whitson in a Northern Virginia special House election to pick Rep. Gerry Connolly's successor, the Associated Press projects.
President Trump ordered the FDA to enforce rules on direct-to-consumer drug ads, after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. released a report on the administration's approach to healthy outcomes for children and families.
In August, the Pentagon offered full military funeral honors to Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt, after denying her family's request for the honor in 2021.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will decide whether President Trump can impose his most sweeping tariffs.
The Justice Department charged the suspect, Decarlos Brown Jr., with one count of committing an act causing death on a mass transportation system.
President Trump's administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow it to freeze billions of dollars in foreign aid funding.
Uncertainty over U.S. tariffs and other Trump administration economic policies are deterring manufacturers from hiring, according to the Center for American Progress.
The Drug Enforcement Administration said its efforts resulted in more than 600 arrests in operations targeting the Sinaloa drug cartel, which has been labeled a terrorist group.