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Detroit's historic bankruptcy filing has ignited a largely uncharted legal front in the closely watched battle between public employee unions and governments across the country struggling to meet costly pension obligations.
This is how Sean Murphy thinks the Boston Bombing suspect should be remembered.
Google and Facebook are frequently talked about as being great tech companies to work. But are they the best?
The most effective leaders are the ones who make you feel like they're really listening. Most importantly, they always remember names.
A former McDonald's worker in Pennsylvania is suing a franchiser owner saying she was required to receive her wages through a debit card that charged fees, resulting in some hourly employees receiving less than minimum wage.
The union representing laid-off photographers at the Chicago Sun-Times plans to file a bad-faith bargaining charge with the National Labor Relations Board.
Hiring decisions have always been limited to a few imperfect factors, including what appears on a resume and what impression a candidate gives off in an informal interview.
Nilofer Merchant suggests a small idea that just might have a big impact on your life and health: Next time you have a one-on-one meeting, make it into a "walking meeting" -- and let ideas flow while you walk and talk.
The Colorado Court of Appeals found there is no employment protection for medical marijuana users in the state since the drug remains barred by the federal government. "For an activity to be lawful in Colorado, it must be permitted by
An attempt to ban US bosses from asking employees to hand over their Facebook login details has been blocked by Congress.
Most people know about Google’s famous multi-colored bikes. They’re hard to miss, scattered around the company’s Mountain View campus like hundreds of discarded toys.
New claims for US unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, partly erasing the increases of the prior three weeks, Labor Department data released Thursday showed.
The notorious Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Plant near Tonopah, Nevada passed another milestone this month, as workers finished placing receiver panels on top of a 540-foot tower that forms the centerpiece of the facility.
Big business and labor have struck a deal on a new low-skilled worker program, removing the biggest hurdle to completion of sweeping immigration legislation allowing 11 million illegal immigrants eventual U.S. citizenship, labor and Senate officials
Yesterday, Yahoo announced it bought a startup called Summly.
Joe LaCava might be the smartest man in golf.
My daughter Lily is fourteen. Over the holidays, she had her her first job. She was employed as a Christmas elf in Santa's grotto at our local farm shop. She is studying business at school but she learned a lot more on the job.
Facebook often ranks at or near the top of any "best companies to work for" list.
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh recently jumped into the debate over working from home that was sparked by Yahoo's recall of its remote workers, telling CNBC that he feels that it's difficult to build a strong company culture when you have lots of telecommuter
The idea of having employees walk around with electronic sensors to track their every move is unsettling.
Our time. Sadly, a reduction of the 40-hour work week doesn't appear to be even a blip on the radar of the average American. Yet it's the most direct and egregious assault on our personal liberty.
Back in my mid-20s, I moved to California to enroll in business school at The Leland Stanford Junior University.
It's no secret that corporate law can wreck your spirit.
I would hope that all of us agree that the idea of a govt-mandated minimum wage has nothing to do with a free market. That said, I have a couple questions concerning it....
It is "perhaps one of the most powerful and private databases of American's personal information ever created, containing 190 million employment and salary records, covering more than one-third of US adults."
Mayor Bloomberg, a billionaire former CEO, said on his weekly radio show Friday that he agrees with Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer that working from home is not productive.
Last week, Google released an illustration of its next corporate campus, a complex of nine rectangular buildings, mostly adorned with green roofs, and all connected by a series of elevated walkways.
Friday, we reported that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer gave hundreds of employees a tough ultimatum.
The major recent corporate hackings all have something in common: human error. The good news is that there's an easy fix.