This past December, the US Department of Labor (DoL), headed by Democrat Marty Walsh, reported the death toll of workers killed on the job had precipitously increased by 8.9 percent in 2021 to 5,190.

Jan 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The world is set to boost efforts to stop children working as 2021 marks the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, amid concerns that COVID-19 ...

Starbucks (SBUX) has reached an agreement with New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) ...

Starbucks has agreed pay more than $35m (£26m) to thousands of workers in New York City, to settle the city's claims that the ...

On November 10, 2021, the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force updated its Guidance for Federal Contractors (“Guidance”). As discussed in earlier updates, all federal contracts meeting certain criteria ...

In 2021, Canada saw significant statutory and case law developments in labour and employment law, some of which related to COVID-19. This Insight provides an overview of key 2021 developments, with ...

Was 2021 the labor movement's year? It certainly felt like it — thousands of workers went on strike this year, at numbers considerably higher than in 2020. But in the context of American labor history ...

The unemployment rate for 15 to 65-year-olds reached 5.3% in the third quarter of this year, up 0.8 percentage points from ...