Incredibly, it’s still legal to pay disabled workers less than the minimum wage. The Labor Department just moved to end the practice—daring Trump to undo it.

As vice president, she helped devise an ambitious blueprint to advance unions. Now she just needs to make it a bigger part of her campaign.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor called out her conservative colleagues for ignoring a “mountain of precedent.”

A new report details how companies face few consequences for stealing wages, employing children, and obstructing union organizing.

It’s been a fantastic week for middle-out economics.

Janikka Perry never made it home from her shift at the bakery of a supercenter in Arkansas. She was one of many Walmart workers who have been pressured to work through illness or pain, sometimes with devastating consequences.

Did Julie Su defend herself? Mostly she let Senate Democrats do that for her.

Julie Su, whose hearing is today, is a fantastic choice for labor secretary. So why is her confirmation such an uphill climb?

Biden is the most pro-labor president since Truman. He needs a labor chief who matches his commitment.

Two chief economists at the Labor Department explain what’s different about today’s economic recovery and what’s changed since the Great Recession.

The Labor Department ordered Krispy Kreme to pay the sum after “overtime violations in multiple locations.”

He’s a nice guy, and the unions like him. But he doesn’t have much of an agenda and doesn’t seem to want one.

A new administration report has great ideas, but only Congress can give labor real power, and the filibuster’s getting in the way.

Why should capital bother to enslave labor when it can eliminate it instead?

It’s about overtime pay, a crucial leg of the New Deal that’s vital to a robust middle class. And the business lobby—and maybe a certain West Virginia senator—are in the way.

As a reporter covering unemployment, I thought I knew everything I needed to get by. Then I was laid off.

By shrinking the regulatory state, the administration is putting young, vulnerable workers at risk.

Three women are taking the tech giant to court for a problem that should have been addressed by the tech giant or federal regulations long ago.