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Author: BY JEANNA SMIALEK - Publish Date: December 9, 2021 at 11:38PM Price gains have moved up sharply for months, but the fact that the trend is lasting and broadening has newly put policymakers on red alert.

Author: BY JEANNA SMIALEK - Publish Date: November 28, 2021 at 03:05AM The furniture capital of the state is ground zero for inflation, labor shortages, hot demand and limited supply. It’s debating how to cope.

Author: BY NOAM SCHEIBER - Publish Date: November 23, 2021 at 12:31AM The Labor Department issued a final rule carrying out an April executive order from President Biden. It could affect more than 300,000 workers.

Author: BY NOAM SCHEIBER - Publish Date: November 14, 2021 at 03:01AM More than 30,000 West Coast workers at the health care provider had planned to go on strike on Monday.

Author: BY NOAM SCHEIBER - Publish Date: November 14, 2021 at 12:06AM About 10,000 workers primarily in Iowa and Illinois have been out since Oct. 14. They rejected two previous contract proposals negotiated by the United Automobile Workers.

Author: BY NOAM SCHEIBER - Publish Date: October 31, 2021 at 12:28AM The agreement must still be approved by U.A.W. members. They had rejected an earlier accord negotiated by the union.

Author: BY JEANNA SMIALEK - Publish Date: October 26, 2021 at 12:47AM Fewer foreign people have been able to work in the U.S. amid the coronavirus, leaving a hole in the potential labor force.

Author: BY JODI KANTOR, KAREN WEISE AND GRACE ASHFORD - Publish Date: October 25, 2021 at 05:41AM A knot of problems with Amazon’s system for handling paid and unpaid leaves has led to devastating consequences for workers.

Author: BY DAVID MCCABE - Publish Date: October 20, 2021 at 12:34AM The Justice Department sued the company in December, arguing that Facebook had declined to “recruit, consider or hire” qualified Americans for more than 2,000 positions.

Author: BY JEANNA SMIALEK - Publish Date: October 19, 2021 at 12:01AM The American Rescue Plan could be pushing inflation up slightly and temporarily, a Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco analysis said.

Author: BY JEANNA SMIALEK - Publish Date: October 19, 2021 at 12:01AM The American Rescue Plan could be pushing inflation up slightly and temporarily, a Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco analysis said.

Author: BY BROOKS BARNES - Publish Date: October 17, 2021 at 07:49AM The tentative deal averts a strike set for Monday and a production shutdown at television and movie studios already scrambling to make up for time lost in the pandemic.

Author: BY PETER COY - Publish Date: September 30, 2021 at 02:00AM Federal and state governments want to curb this widespread employment practice.

Author: BY PETER COY - Publish Date: September 18, 2021 at 03:08AM A new study aims to help the Biden administration determine the ‘social cost’ of greenhouse gases.  

Author: BY JEANNA SMIALEK - Publish Date: September 8, 2021 at 01:17AM You may have noticed that you’re paying more for lots of things. Inflation has become a hot topic, but the question is whether it will last.

Author: BY STEVEN GREENHOUSE - Publish Date: September 5, 2021 at 02:00AM Posing at coal mines and factories, they may tell voters otherwise. But the policy tells a different story.

Author: BY JEANNA SMIALEK - Publish Date: September 4, 2021 at 12:03AM Average hourly earnings increased rapidly, including for leisure and hospitality workers, even as job gains fell short of expectations.

Author: BY NOAM SCHEIBER - Publish Date: August 31, 2021 at 01:15AM The organizing campaign, if successful, could upend the company’s labor model. Employees say chronic understaffing has long caused frustration.

Author: BY JULIA JACOBS - Publish Date: August 25, 2021 at 12:26AM The labor deal means that the company, the largest performing arts organization in the nation, is on track to reopen next month after the pandemic kept it closed for more than a year.

Author: BY PETER COY - Publish Date: August 17, 2021 at 02:38AM A new way to think about this oddity of the labor market.