Employee Participation

Jobless claims climbed by 19,000 to 348,000 in the period ended Jan. 2.

Spending a lot of time fixating on data from smartphones is the new normal, especially in the business world. And it may be robbing millions of smart phone users of untold hours of sound sleep.

President Barack Obama, who made revising the law a top priority for his final term, last night urged Congress to get immigration reform done this year.

Health Savings Account limits will either rise marginally or remain where they are for the next two years. Or so says HSA guru Roy Ramthun.

Unions picked up 280,000 members from the private sector last year, a 4 percent bump, as construction and manufacturing, among other industries, saw recovery from the recession.

Members of the Northwestern University football team are attempting to create the first athlete-specific union in the history of college sports, a move they say is aimed at gaining more financial and legal rights.