Employee Participation

The average number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits over the past month fell to the lowest level since March 2008, a sign that the job market is healing.

Georgia labor officials say metro Atlanta's jobless rate has dropped to 8 percent.

As half of new employees regret taking their job offers this year, many employers are also unsure whether they made the right hiring decisions, particularly as one in eight new hires did not work out in the past year.

Although administrative and clerical workers confidence has remained steady, it has slightly declined for the second consecutive quarter.

West Virginia is getting federal funding to help workers who lost their jobs or were displaced because of Superstorm Sandy.

State labor officials say about 43,000 Connecticut residents could lose emergency unemployment benefits at the end of December unless Congress continues the program.