As the shutdown enters its second month, some furloughed federal workers are finding new sources of income after weeks of making do without paychecks. They’ve taken on gig work and retail jobs; served ...

Human dignity demands just wages, reasonable hours and the right to organize—precisely what the gig economy is designed to ...

The labor market is experiencing an ongoing slowdown in job creation and hiring, turning the workforce into an exclusive club with high standards for admission. This is especially true for young ...

I’ve spent most of my life in the restaurant management business. When I retired about three years ago, I wanted to see what it was like on the other side as a delivery driver. That’s how I found ...

In his newly translated memoir I Deliver Parcels in Beijing, Hu Anyan captures the brutal labor and quiet grace of life at ...

CNN attended two job fairs in the Washington, DC, area recently. Many furloughed government employees at these events gave sobering accounts of the hardships they’re facing.

One of Zohran Mamdani’s most harmful proposals is getting the least attention: his plan to restrict “gig” work – the freelancing that’s so popular across the Big Apple. Mamdani wants to wrap ...

SEATTLE — A new report claims a Seattle gig-worker pay ordinance has caused restaurant orders and driver earnings to plummet by double digits, but is being met with a collective shrug at City Hall.

Lyft will pay the New Jersey Labor Department more than $19.4 million to settle allegations from a state audit that found that the ride-sharing giant misclassified more than 100,000 workers as ...

Like thousands of other Vietnamese-American women in California, Emily Micelli started painting nails to support herself. She turned that weekend job into a two-decade-long career as a manicurist, and ...

The labor market is experiencing an ongoing slowdown in job creation and hiring, turning the workforce into an exclusive club with high standards for admission. This is especially true for young ...