Labor

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.

Hazard pay changed the lives of California grocery store employees during the pandemic and may have begun a long-term shift for lower-wage workers.

Motherboard spoke to economists and historians about why fast food and retail workers around the country are suddenly quitting en masse.

Measure of the wage growth of individuals. It is constructed using microdata from the Current Population Survey (CPS), and is the median percent change in the hourly wage of individuals observed 12 months apart.

Jobs and pay can vary a lot depending on where you live, based on 2013 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Here’s an interactive to look.

Beaumont Health has more than 2,600 open positions across its eight hospitals and more than 165 outpatient centers. Roughly 5 percent of those positions fall under one job — medical assistant.A medical assistant performs relatively routine tasks, such as filling out insurance forms,…

In what’s been dubbed the “Great Resignation,” 4 million people, or 2.7% of US workers, quit their jobs in April

When Omar Anani was starting out in the restaurant industry more than a decade ago, he slept in the back seat of his car and often didn't know where his next meal would come from. Even with tips, the $2.65 an hour he made as a server wasn't enough to live on. "It was something I swore I would never…

“Employers are becoming much more cognizant that yes, it’s about money, but also about quality of life.”

St. Louis Fed President James Bullard discusses the ratio of unemployed workers to job openings, along with other measures, to assess the state of the labor market.

Michigan's restaurant and hospitality industry is scrambling in preparation for the holiday weekend — one they won't soon forget. Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start to summer, is expected to overwhelm restaurants, hotels and golf courses as the eager vaccinated population sheds masks for…

How many views and followers on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok do you need to give up the day job?

The amusement park is also increasing pay to a minimum of $20 an hour for all seasonal and part-time employees.

The food service industry is trying to bring back employees as customers prepare for a summer of dining