Labor

The gig is up… Yesterday the Labor Department announced a proposal that could classify millions of gig workers (think: delivery drivers, janitors,...

Thanks to touchscreens and the pandemic, tipflation is everywhere — and it’s hard to say no.

A proposed rule, long awaited by labor activists, would make it harder for companies to classify workers as independent contractors.

With the power of automation, our workers can win. Without it, they're in trouble.

Survey respondents’ experiences in and expectations for the labor market, including earnings, job transitions, job offers, and wage expectations

The June jobs report was cheered by economic bulls given its strength in level terms, but rates of change among leading indicators don't favor a soft-landing outcome for the economy.

Workers are experiencing the biggest decline in years in inflation-adjusted pay. Wages are up 5.1% in past year. Inflation is up 9.1%.The Labor Department calculates that workers had a -3.6% inflation-adjusted decline in pay in the past year (that's seasonally adjusted). pic.twitter.com/yM0cd7sHbn— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) July 13, 2022

Unions might not be the tech giant’s biggest labor threat.

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Several weeks of overstaffing resulted in wage pressure for Walmart and productivity declines at Amazon.

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Second event in virtual series looks at causes, solutions for racial employment disparities

Raising the minimum wage and ending subminimum wages would benefit millions of workers

With a 92% turnover rate in the trucking industry, companies are trying to entice new drivers.

Resignations are rising because people are seeing more job listings, not because they’re feeling more Marxist.

A shortage of babysitters has driven rates way up.

By the end of 2021 there were about 2 million fewer working-age immigrants in the U.S. than there would have been if immigration trends had continued unchanged.

It is the first time such jobs have been advertised for women in the conservative Muslim kingdom.

COVID-19 has sped up the automation of many tasks, leading some to fear algorithms will take their jobs. But AI is creating more jobs than it destroys.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wages jumped in the three months ending in September by the most on records dating back 20 years, a stark illustration of the growing ability of workers to demand higher pay from companies that are desperate to fill a near-record number of available jobs.

A lasting effect of this pandemic will be a revolution in worker expectations.

EconExtra is a series of posts that go beyond the textbook, relating current events and recent developments in economics to content standards, and providing resource suggestions to help you incorporate the current events into your lessons. The content in this post could be incorporated into lessons covering several of the EEC Voluntary Content Standards, including 1: Scarcity, 11: Money and Inflation, 13: Income, 15: Economic Growth, 18: Economic Fluctuations, 19: Unemployment and Inflation, and 20: Fiscal and Monetary Policy.   The Headlines   We’ve had the “Great Depression,” the “Great Recession,” and now, the “Great Resignation.” Headlines abound regarding how many people are leaving the workforce. April set a new record for the number of people quitting their jobs, only to be surpassed in July, and again in August, when 4.3 million people, or 3% of the workforce, quit. Why are so many Americans quitting their jobs?

A growing focus over the past few months has been the US labor market’s increasing quit rate. Despite working its slow process back to full strength, a growing number of workers are quitting their job.

Average wages for nonmanagers at restaurants and bars hit $15 an hour in May, but many say no amount of pay would get them to return. They are leaving at the highest rate in decades.