The effort follows the department’s notice that it may create a national claims database, a move critics say raises cybersecurity, privacy and surveillance risks. Labor State and Local Data Governance ...

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said the new portal features “better integration with other federal data sources and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California Federation of Labor Unions President Lorena Gonzalez speaks during a news conference in Sacramento on Feb. 4, 2026.

Job openings in August rose by 19,000 to 7.23 million, and July was revised higher. Government job openings (federal, state, and local) plunged by 23% year-over-year, while private sector job openings ...

Weeks ago, President Donald Trump declared an “emergency” in Washington, D.C., and deployed the National Guard, despite the local government’s wishes. This happened just days after the Heritage ...

The Labor Department said Nov. 19 that it will not release a full jobs report for October because the 43-day federal government shutdown meant it couldn't calculate the unemployment rate and some ...

The Ministry of Employment and Labor launched a 'labor-government (勞政) consultative body' with the Federation of Korean Trade Unions on the 9th. It will begin a labor-government consultative body with ...