Alabama now officially has a Department of Workforce. Late Friday, Gov. Kay Ivey announced the state’s Department of Labor would officially change its name and focus on Feb. 1, with former State Sen.

To gather the fullest employment picture in Alabama – and across the nation for that matter – we must shift our focus to labor force participation. Alabama’s current unemployment rate is at an ...

Apr. 22—Over the past year, the Alabama Attorney General's Office has received a variety of complaints from citizens who believe that their personal identifying information has been used to carry out ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The ...

May 31 (UPI) --The U.S. Department of Labor Friday filed a federal court complaint alleging a Hyundai assembly plant and two Alabama suppliers illegally used oppressive child labor. Hyundai Motor ...

Current and former prisoners are suing Alabama, fast food franchisees and other beneficiaries of the state's prison labor system they say is a “modern-day form of slavery” where incarcerated people ...

A group of current and former Alabama prisoners are alleging that the state's prison labor practices amount to a "modern-day form of slavery," according to a complaint filed in federal court this week ...