Near a row of plastic domes, a group of other migrant workers was setting the stage for replanting. A pickup truck emerged ...

Lacking an available pool of migrant labor, the United Stated has historically turned to another vulnerable ...

Analysis of the impact of Biden and Trump's economic policies on the labor market, inflation, interest rates, housing market, ...

Labor Day, which is celebrated on the first Monday of September, falls on September 5 this year. While many people know it simply as the reason for a three-day weekend or the unofficial end to summer, ...

Federal holidays in the United States offer a unique blend of tradition and modernity, with the recent addition of Juneteenth ...

During years in which a new president is inaugurated, there are typically 12 federal holidays for federal workers in the Washington D.C. area but since Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day ...

Faith, immigrant and labor leaders across Michigan ... about how the Trump administration may affect their lives. The Detroit NAACP held an MLK Day event at Denise Wellons-Glover Welcome Center ...

The first holiday of the year was just a couple of weeks ago, with banks and big retailers closed on New Year’s Day. Now, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is here — and it happens to coincide with President ...

Forty-hour workweeks may be wearing people out needlessly ... “Ford Establishes a 5-Day Week After Test; Expects Spur to Labor Will Bring 6-Day Pay.” U.S. Code. “Fair Labor Standards ...

Federal regulations allow 14- and 15-year-olds to work no later than 7 p.m. between Labor Day and May 31. They also may not work more than three hours on a school day, or 18 hours in a week when ...

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 14,000 to a seasonally adjusted 217,000 for the week ended Jan. 11, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Economists polled by Reuters had ...

In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third Monday of January cleared Congress and President Ronald Reagan signed it.