Nearly 2,000 workers in Alabama were laid off in mass layoffs and plant closures in 2024, according to WARN notices filed with the Alabama Department of Commerce. About 21 employers in industries ...

Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman chronicle financial mismanagement, abuses of power and general inhumanities in a system ...

Many of the largest federal funding sources are considered mandatory programs, meaning they can’t simply be cut or eliminated.

GE Appliances in Decatur is being fined more than $190,000 after inspectors with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational ...

Gov. Kay Ivey signed the “Working for Alabama” legislative package, which included the child care tax credit bill.

Unemployment in the Shoals was 3.5% in December, making 2024 the third straight calendar year the local rate has stayed below 4%, according to the latest figures from ...

OSHA inspectors opened an investigation of the July 2024 incident at Haier U.S. Appliance Solutions Inc. and found the ...

The U.S. Department of Labor has entered into an agreement with a Chattanooga cleaning contractor that requires the employer to pay $400,000 in civil money penalties, monitor and audit policies to ...

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Alabama rose last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, increased to ...

The Labor Department said that QSI, which is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, as part of a company called the Vincit Group, employed children on overnight shifts at 13 meat processing plants in ...

The violations were discovered in Iowa, Alabama, California, Delaware, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee and Virginia, according to the department. “The Department of Labor is determined to stop our ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama children with physical disabilities are being unnecessarily institutionalized in nursing homes, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday, warning it would file ...