May 20, 2016 Surprise, surprise, Obama's new overtime rule was never intended to raise your wages The Obama administration claims that millions of salaried workers will get a raise under the new Department of Labor overtime rule.
May 19, 2016 Ohio plumber reunites owners with long-lost class rings Over his 20-year career, Trent Dawson, like every plumber, has found a number of prized items covered in sludge in sewer tanks and pipes -- including class rings lost more than four decades ago.
May 6, 2016 Walmart brings back greeters to most stores Those smiley door greeters are back at Walmart.
May 3, 2016 At Your Service: Mortgage company’s valet parking helps their workers feel like royalty Valet car service is one of many ways United Shore tries to make the 1,350 people working at its headquarters feel special and valued.
May 3, 2016 Are Evangelical Churches Abandoning the Working Class? As cycles of unemployment, poverty and death have set in on many working class communities across America, are churches overlooking their responsibilities to help alleviate the pain and suffering of plighted working class families?
May 3, 2016 Tech company connects employees to wellness as part of inspired culture Going to work for Good Technology in Sunnyvale, Calif.? You better be ready to pay attention to your health and fitness. The growing mobile technology company gives Fitbit wrist devices to its more than 700 employees as part of their focus on employee health, work-life balance and development.
May 3, 2016 Union cancels Boeing vote, claiming gun-toting workers told it to take off It looks as if some residents in South Carolina take their state’s Right-to-Work laws very seriously. A Charleston-area union claims that some of their organizers and recruiters met the barrel of a gun when they knocked on the doors of workers from the local Boeing plant.
May 3, 2016 Cheryl Casone: How my mother inspired 'The Comeback' I wrote "The Comeback" because every woman should have the chance to succeed simultaneously at work and motherhood the way my own mother did.
May 2, 2016 Obama faces Dem fury over newly released trade deal President Obama faced deep skepticism from fellow Democrats over the hard-fought Pacific Rim trade deal after it was released early Thursday morning, with critics calling it a "job-killing" agreement as the administration argued it's an economic win.
May 2, 2016 Labor board ruling puts more companies on hook for franchise workers A federal labor ruling released Thursday could put thousands of companies on the hook for workplace disputes and union-organizing matters involving temporary and franchise workers.