On July 1, 2025, new increased minimum wage rates will go into effect in many California cities and counties. Local governments have looked to offset the effects of inflation and have decided to use ...

New laws taking effect on January 1 in four states would crack down on companies using child labor laws or violating already-existing laws, while one state loosened its child labor laws. Several ...

Labor disputes in the US date back to before the Revolutionary War. The first recorded strike over working conditions took place in 1636 on Richmond Island, Maine, when fishermen protested that their ...

The amendments to the NYLL are now law, effective immediately, and apply to pending and future actions unless otherwise specified. The legislation significantly recalibrates wage-and-hour enforcement, ...

We economists think labor bargaining power tells most of the story. Alan Greenspan was obsessed with labor power. His enduring question at the Federal Reserve was whether the economy could lower ...