Employment

The H1-B program allows American employers to sponsor visas for highly skilled workers from overseas who cannot be easily found in the American workforce.

Thousands of workers are facing an unsettling reality heading into 2025. After years of working from the comfort of home, they’re being told it’s time to return to the office full-time for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic.

Job creation in November rebounded from a near-standstill the prior month as the effects of a significant labor strike and violent storms in the southeast receded, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.

Starbucks says incoming CEO Brian Niccol can live in his home in Newport Beach, California and commute to Starbucks’s head office in Seattle on a corporate jet.

Deryl McKissack, CEO of construction firm McKissack & McKissack, is no stranger to spotting toxic traits in the workplace. She looks for these three the most.

The job website Indeed, which has headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut and Austin, Texas, is laying off around 1,000 people, which is around 8 percent of the company. No information has been released on how many jobs in Connecticut will be affected. “I am sad to share the news that we have made the difficult decision to reduce our headcount through…

Democrats on the legislature’s Labor Committee want to expand the state’s paid sick leave law to apply to all workers. It approved, anyone can earn up to 40 hours of paid sick time regardless of the size of the company they work for. “Connecticut likes to lead and unfortunately this is an area where we were leaders in 2011, but…

Calfornia Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new bill into law today that will pay many of the state’s fast food workers a minimum wage of $20 an hour.

According to analytics from Flamingo, Aug. 24 is the most common day for employees to call in sick, February is the sickest month and most sick days are for stomach issues.

FinanceBuzz ranked the most overworked cities among the 50 largest in the country.

Generative artificial intelligence is shaping the future of the U.S. labor force in ways that can impact career paths and industries moving forward, based on two new studies.

The unemployment rate fell from 3.7% to 3.6%, near a five-decade low.