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Just years after labor activists persuaded a handful of states to raise their minimum wage to $15 per hour, workers initially thrilled with the pay bump are finding their hard-won gains erased by …

Union Pacific has become the second major freight railroad in recent weeks to back away from the industry's longstanding push to cut train crews down to one person as lawmakers and regulators …

Public pension plan losses from bank failures seen as minor

When two tech-linked U.S. banks failed this month, among the investors who lost millions were public-sector pension funds responsible for ensuring the retirements of teachers, firefighters and other …

Do-not-eat listing draws lawsuit from Maine lobster industry

A coalition representing the Maine lobster industry is suing an aquarium on the other side of the country for recommending that seafood customers avoid buying a variety of lobster mostly harvested in …

App-based ride hailing and delivery companies like Uber and Lyft can continue to treat their California drivers as independent contractors, a state appeals court ruled Monday, allowing the tech …

Shoe polish stands begin to vanish, lose their shine

On a recent winter weekday at Penn Station Shoe Repair and Shoe Shine, men hop onto shoeshine chairs and pull out newspapers and phones to read while shoe shiners get to work applying polish and …

11 states consider 'right to repair' for farming equipment

On Colorado's northeastern plains, where the pencil-straight horizon divides golden fields and blue sky, a farmer named Danny Wood scrambles to plant and harvest proso millet, dryland corn and winter …

NEWS IN BRIEF

U.K.Shorter hours = happier workersDozens of companies with more than 3,000 employees in Britain took part in the largest ever trial of working a four-day work week and the results, released this …

NEWS IN BRIEF

IOWABill would put children to workA bill by Republican lawmakers in Iowa would amend the state’s existing child labor laws to allow teenagers as young as 14 to work in jobs and industries …

An unexpected job surge confounds the Fed's economic models

Does the Federal Reserve have it wrong?For months, the Fed has been warily watching the U.S. economy's robust job gains out of concern that employers, desperate to hire, would keep boosting pay and, …

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