Why Are Employers Checking Job Applicants’ Credit Histories?
It’s the classic Catch-22 of the doomed job search: How do you get a job? You need experience. And how...
It’s the classic Catch-22 of the doomed job search: How do you get a job? You need experience. And how...
Millions of Americans struggle to get by on low wages, often without any benefits such as paid sick leave, a...
MADISON — The chant “come on out, we’ve got your back!” echoed through the air at Taco Bell as peaceful...
When Governor Jerry Brown signs Assembly Bill 1522, California will join a growing number of states where temporary or part-time...
With all the filthy lucre sloshing around on Wall Street, New York City may not strike you as a bastion...
The city council in Passaic, New Jersey unanimously passed an ordinance requiring paid sick leave on Tuesday night with a...
I work for McDonald’s and I make $21 an hour. No, that isn’t a typo. It’s really my salary. You...
(Reuters) – U.S. fast-food workers staged protests in some 150 cities on Thursday in a fight for higher pay, and...
The California legislature has passed a bill that would hold companies legally responsible if the temp agencies and subcontractors they...
On Labor Day, families gather, politicians pay tribute to values of hard work, and some workers even get an extra...
Bringing to a close a summer-long supermarket standoff, a deal was reached late Wednesday to sell the majority stake of...
While wages have declined across all sectors in the years following the financial crash of 2008, low-paid workers have been...
Subway may claim to be the “leader in fast, healthy food,” but that alleged commitment to wellness often doesn’t extend...
Meet Carlton, one of six service workers gathered at 71-year-old Austraberta Rodriguez’s home in Houston, Texas for breakfast with U.S....
Each week, millions of dollars are stolen from American families. The perpetrators act with impunity. There are no arrests, few...
An extraordinary shift in wages paid to American workers took place from 2000 to 2012, a change that holds powerful...
Jimmy John’s, the “freaky fast” sandwich staple of America’s college towns, is being sued by two former employees for what...
Candis Riggins has a new baby. But, since she got fired from Walmart, she no longer has her job or...
(CNN) — Raising the minimum wage continues to be a top Democratic economic priority, insisting that higher pay is critical...
VILLA PARK, Ill. (AP) — Comparing their campaign to the civil rights movement, fast food workers from across the country...
People who work for tips are far more likely to live in poverty, according to a new report from the...
Last year, according to a new analysis from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the CEOs of America’s top 25 restaurant...
On Monday the Supreme Court struck down a key part of the Affordable Care Act, ruling that privately-owned corporations don’t...
A new report on California’s grocery industry confirms what supermarket employees and labor union officials have known for years: Namely,...
Starting last year, The Huffington Post asked people surviving on wages near the federal minimum, as well as those struggling...
Low-income families weren’t the only ones hurt by cuts to food stamps last fall. Top Walmart executives also took a...
As fast food workers strike in 150 U.S. cities Thursday and solidarity protests spring up in 30 other countries, it’s...
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median household pay is dropping, adjusted for inflation. A smaller share of working-age...
Organized labor has been under attack for decades, with devastating results for the middle class. Wages have not kept up...
Hundreds of children too young to buy cigarettes are working 60 hours a week on tobacco farms across the South,...
A good many Americans now know the high-finance games that JPMorgan Chase and other big banks like to play —...
The chase after ever cheaper sites for manufacturing is causing rising inequality, low-wage misery, and unsafe workplaces in many parts...
The dramatic progress of the movement to make the minimum wage a living wage was highlighted on May Day when...
A new poll finds that 89 percent of fast food workers nationwide say they experience wage theft.