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The U.S. Department of Labor’s final rule change that expands overtime for salaried employees earning $23,660 to $47,476 will cleverly hammer the private sector and generally exempt the unionized public sector.

If the Department of Labor continues to make it difficult for companies to hire American workers, Marco Rubio warned, robots would take over key jobs in the economy.

U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez went after Donald Trump, saying that he is “the modern-day incarnation of the Know-Nothing movement.”

The University of California has been short-changing thousands of its employees out of small amounts of money that add up to millions of dollars.

Inside sources tell Breitbart News that a top Obama administration official is being forced out for steering a six-figure contract to a friend. Carl “Fillichio is still at the department, but has transitioned into a new role in the office of the Deputy Secretary,” Labor Department spokesman Jesse Lawder told Breitbart News. “He has not been replaced yet as head of OPA, and Dori Henry, who has been the Senior Managing Director for OPA, is the acting agency head.”

More than half of U.S. states reported job losses in September, as hiring slowed, a new report finds.

More than half of U.S. states experienced job losses last month, according to data released Tuesday by the Labor Department. The Bureau of Labor Statics reported that employment dropped in 27 states. Twenty states and the District of Columbia saw employment increase and three states had employment figures that remained unchanged.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is nationally known because of his battle over union reforms in his state, which resulted in several spectacular, and futile, efforts by Big Labor to knock him out of office.

The number of women out of the U.S. labor force reached another record high in August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Salaried workers who earn nearly $1,000 per week would become eligible for overtime pay under a proposal President Barack Obama unveiled Monday, lamenting that too many Americans are working too many hours for less pay than they deserve.

According to Sens. Durbin and Sessions, the DOL has opened investigations into Infosys and Tata — two foreign companies that have brought guest workers on H-1B visas into the United States to replace American workers.

WASHINGTON, DC — An illegal immigrant male residing in the United States is more likely to be gainfully employed than a male who is a legal immigrant or U.S.-born citizen, a senior demographer at the Pew Research Center think tank told lawmakers.

The Labor Department announced that 235 union multi-employer-multi-employee pension funds are “endangered,” meaning they lack the assets to pay 80 percent of their promised benefits.

Jim Clifton, the Chairman and CEO at Gallup, has acknowledged the dirty little secret that the Obama administration and their media lapdogs assiduously attempt to hide: the official unemployment rate reported by the U.S. Department of Labor does not accurately reflect the grim reality of American unemployment.

Union membership in America continues to dwindle, according to new data released on Friday by the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.