Employee Participation

Weekly applications for U.S. unemployment aid fell last week to a seasonally adjusted 369,000, a level consistent with modest hiring.

Although U.S. House and Senate staff members find a balance between work and life valuable, 26 percent say they're content with the flexibility given to them, according to Life in Congress: Aligning Work and Life in the U.S. House and Senate, a research report released by the Congressional Management Foundation...

A Wisconsin judge refused Monday to put on hold his earlier decision repealing major parts of Gov. Scott Walker's law effectively ending collective bargaining for most public workers.

One-third of parents with young children say they're worried about losing jobs or facing pay cuts when they must watch their sick children at home, according to the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health by the University of Michigan.

Orexigen Therapeutics Inc. said Monday it is in discussions with the Food and Drug Administration about speeding up a regulatory review of Orexigen's obesity drug Contrave.

The federal government has begun soliciting bids for the construction of a Jobs Corps Center in Manchester, N.H., three years after the project was stalled by contract language that would have required the facility to be built by union labor.