Employee Participation

Payrolls rebounded in April following an even bigger setback a month earlier than previously estimated, a sign companies are confident the economy will reboot after stagnating early this year. The unemployment rate dropped to 5.4 percent.

This could be the best summer for teen jobs since at least 2008. In the last several months, the teen unemployment rate dipped below 18 percent a big improvement, even if its still triple the rate for the general population.

Fewer Americans than forecast filed applications for unemployment benefits last week, dropping the average over the past month to the lowest in 15 years, indicating companies are holding on to workers.

More than three-fourths of U.S. millennial workers who quit their job do so because of minimal wage growth, according Ernst & Young.

Nontraditional benefits are changing the wellness equation.

Companies in April added the fewest number of workers in more than a year, a sign progress in the labor market may be moderating along with the economy.