August would traditionally be high season for vacationers, but fewer and fewer of us are doing that these days; in fact, according to data reported in The New York Times earlier this year, Americans are taking less time off than at any point in the past 50 years. And this isn’t just because we...
We all know there are certain questions a job interviewer cannot ask you: religious affiliation, marital status, sexual orientation, whether you have kids, etc. But it seems that many employers get around that these days by simply snooping through your social media.
In fact, applicants report an ...
Your career may be a telltale sign of your political tendencies, according to a surprising new study on the link between different occupations and Democratic/Republican leanings. The findings are compiled in the chart below:
To create this graphic, the company Verdant Labs compiled data from th...
The Family and Medical Leave Act was passed over 20 years ago, making landmark changes that allow workers to take off 12 weeks of unpaid leave for medical or family reasons without risking termination from their jobs.
But now, many workers, politicians, labor activists, and workers’ compens...
Across the U.S., the majority of women earn less than men. But 25 cities actually defy that trend.
In Inglewood, California, for example, women make $1.20 for every dollar their male counterpart earns according to a new analysis of full-time median income by the finance website NerdWallet. That's...
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“How old are you?” If you’ve ever had a question like this in a job interview, it’s an instant red flag.
Responding to such questions can compromise your chances of getting the job, and the interview...
On Tuesday the U.S. Supreme Court handed a victory to companies over workers, ruling that employers are not obligated to pay workers for extra time spent in security checks at the end of their shifts. The case emerged from workers in an Amazon.com Inc. warehousing contractor, Integrity Staffing Solu...
High school football coach K. Bella, who is deaf, just discovered a way to communicate with his players through a new technology that brings a live sign language interpreter to his television screen. Bella’s players, whether on the phone or elsewhere, can listen to the interpreter voicing out ...
In recent decades there’s been an unprecedented push to sensitize American employers in order to improve workplace conditions, boost employee morale, and enhance productivity to create an overall happy workplace. In light of the effort invested, one would think we’d now be the happiest workf...
Every day, the media covers hundreds of stories on jobs, income, unemployment, and the U.S. economy. But what happens when we step back and ask a few bigger, simpler questions: What do Americans do for a living? And in what way has the employment landscape changed over the last 30 years?
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