Hostess Brands Inc. is seeking court permission for a new employment deal that would hand millions of dollars to Chief Executive Brian J. Driscoll, "architect" of the company's plan to cut costs and jettison its pension plans. Read the ...
Employment in the U.S. nonfarm private business sector increased by 170,000 from December to January on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the monthly National Employment Report released this morning by payroll firm ADP.
Hostess Brands Inc. is seeking court permission for a new employment deal that would hand millions of dollars to Chief Executive Brian J. Driscoll, "architect" of the company's plan to cut costs and jettison its pension plans.
The job market continues to improve, according to new data, but economists say consumers have too much on their minds to start spending. Jobless claims are down for the week ending Feb. 4 and unemployment fell to 8.3% in January, yet ...
A previous version of this column incorrectly said manufacturing employment grew by 81,000 in January. It was actually goods-producing industries.
Negative housing values haven't prevented enough homeowners from moving to get a new job to have a big impact on overall unemployment in the U.S., a paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston said.
MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE Over the past six months, employment as measured by the household survey has increased by 1.98 million, the biggest increase in more than six years, reports Rex Nutting.
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. (MarketWatch) — The question of whether the latest employment figures are good or bad depends largely on one’s point of view.
A column published on Feb. 3 incorrectly stated that manufacturing employment grew by 81,000 in January. It was all goods-producing industries that created 81,000 jobs. Read the corrected column.
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Employment in the nation’s private sector is improving at a moderate pace, with two years of job gains now on the books, according to a monthly labor-market report released Wednesday by payrolls-processor ...
Facebook Inc. provided new detail on the roles and compensation for Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg in a securities filing on Wednesday, as the social-networking company moves towards one of the ...
The January jump in nonfarm payroll employment and decline in the unemployment rate, reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday to general applause, requires a footnote that is normally mentioned in passing, when mentioned at all.
BEIJING (Caixin Online) — Sixty-year-old entrepreneur and family man Qiu worked hard to fulfill a dream by immigrating to Sweden. He never expected a nightmarish police interrogation to follow.
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — While Republican presidential hopefuls in Florida decry President Barack Obama’s health-care reform as job-killing, for one big chunk of the economy — the health-care sector itself — the controversial law will ...
An over-reliance on slimming government budgets is feeding the euro zone's recession, European Union Labor Commissioner Laszlo Andor warned in an interview.