Employees

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has banned almost all noncompete employment agreements that prohibit workers from switching to competing businesses or starting one of their own.

Three workers at an Academy Sports + Outdoors store in Metairie, Louisiana, were reportedly fired for trying to stop a shoplifter who fled with a gun on December 16.

Six hundred employees at independent bookstores across several states are about to get a big Christmas surprise from someone extremely famous.

Democrat Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s office is hoping to draw high-skilled workers and companies to the state and away from red states by marketing Michigan’s lax laws around abortion and LGBT+ issues as “freedom.”

Cassidy rebuked the Biden administration for transforming a bipartisan effort to support pregnant women in the workplace into a rule that would make employers facilitate their employees’ abortions.

The Biden administration is working to transform a bipartisan effort to support pregnant women in the workplace into a rule that would make employers facilitate their employees’ abortions.

CVS Health said Monday it is cutting approximately 5,000 jobs to focus more on healthcare services for its customers.

Union officials representing Planned Parenthood employees are expecting the organization to lay off 10 to 20 percent of its national workforce, which is at least 80 people, NPR reported Tuesday. 

A CEO in Seattle who cut his salary to raise his worker’s pay, stepped down Wednesday from his company, Gravity Payments.

In a 13-0 vote, the Los Angeles City Council voted on Wednesday to require city employees, except those with medical or religious exemptions, to be vaccinated for coronavirus by early October.

One Chick-fil-A employee in Wisconsin formed such a tight bond with one of her coworkers that she gifted her a car.

Two former Oklahoma jail workers and their supervisor are accused of cruelty for forcing inmates to listen to “Baby Shark” on repeat.

The EEOC said on Wednesday that businesses can’t require their employees to take the coronavirus anti-body test because it violates the ADA.

Retail giant Walmart says it plans to give out a second round of cash bonuses to all of its U.S. hourly workers during the coronavirus pandemic.

Walmart will hire 150,000 workers to meet rising demand during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, the company said Thursday.

The H-E-B grocery company recently gave employees a special thank you after it was dubbed the number one grocery retailer in the United States.

A New Jersey mayor is apologizing after getting so drunk at a work party that he wound up without pants in a female employee’s bed.

Delta Air Lines recently said it will give its employees $1.6 billion in profit-sharing bonuses as a thank you for their hard work in 2019.

More than one million employees could see a fatter paycheck in 2020 as the federal government is overhauling overtime pay requirements for the first time in 15 years.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is vowing to tackle uncertain work schedules if she makes it into the Oval Office, unveiling a big government plan to require companies employing 15 people or more of posting schedules two weeks in advance as part of her effort to champion workers under her “Fair Workweek” proposal.

A Facebook employee reportedly died by suicide after leaping off the company’s headquarters building in Menlo Park, California, on Thursday.

A McDonald’s customer threw restaurant equipment at employees after she was reportedly told they were out of ice cream.

A New York labor union published a report, Wednesday, calling out Amazon’s “deadly and dehumanizing” working conditions and accusing it of working towards “world market domination.”

Baltimore construction firms are training and hiring hundreds of ex-convicts because they cannot hire enough migrants in President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” economy.

United States Steel announced Wednesday morning that it would call back 500 employees to work at its Granite City, Illinois, plant after President Trump announced that the U.S. would impose tariffs on foreign steel.

Amazon has been granted patents for employee wristbands, which would track workers and tell them where to go.

The current United States legal immigration system where extended family members and relatives of naturalized U.S. citizens are able to readily enter the country is “really hard to justify as a rational immigration policy,” a Harvard University economist says.

Decades of mass immigration to the United States, with more than 1.5 million legal immigrants entering the country every year, is the world’s “largest anti-poverty program” at the expense of blue-collar American workers and the middle class, says a Harvard University economist.

President Trump has gathered many CEOs and business leaders together since becoming president, but some of these company leaders are facing a backlash from their employees who don’t support the president.

ESPN will fire between 200 to 300 employees in the next few months as its parent company Disney downsizes.

U.S. District Judge Edward Chen, a Barack Obama appointee, granted class action status to a lawsuit claiming Uber Technologies Inc. illegally classifies its on-call drivers as independent contractors, rather than employees with rights and benefits.