Trump’s Labor Office moves to protect religious freedom, freedom of conscience
The Trump administration has proposed a rule which protects faith-based organizations that contract with the federal government by allowing them to make employment decisions consistent with their sincerely held More...
Florida: Competitive Edge Landscaping order to pay back wages for overtime, cheating staff out of bonuses
After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Competitive Edge Group Inc. – operating as Competitive Edge Landscaping and based in Longwood, Florida – will pay $44,280 More...
Labor Department announces grant to battle opioid crisis in Florida, Alexander Acosta says this ‘is a serious public health concern’
The U.S. Department of Labor Friday announced the award of an opioid-crisis Dislocated Worker Grant (DWG) to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity for up to $2,500,000, with $833,333 released initially. More...
US economy adds 261K jobs, unemployment continues to drop to 17-year low
The U.S. economy added 261,000 jobs in October, meeting expectations that the country had rebounded from the impact of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and the jobless rate ticked down to 4.1 percent — the lowest More...
Tom Perez to chair DNC, progressives call for more socialism, Bernie Sanders wants ‘total transformation’ of Democratic Party
The battle for the chair of the Democratic National Committee came to an end in Atlanta when former Labor Secretary Tom Perez was elected to the position, beating out Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison in a race between More...
227,000 Jobs Added in January, Accounting Jobs Decline
The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that job growth to start the 2017 year remains strong. The report finds that 227,000 jobs were added in January despite the unemployment rate increasing to 4.8%, More...
Former Clinton aide Robert Reich calls out Hillary Clinton on secrecy, email scandal
Sunday on ABC’s ‘This Week With George Stephanopoulos,” former Clinton Secretary of Labor Robert Reich said Hillary Clinton’s lack of “disclosure” is a “key vulnerability.” “She’s running a general More...