Labor and Employment

  • Spain's Telefonica gets OK to cut 6,500 jobs
    AP (July 14, 2011)
    MADRID (AP) - Spain's Labor Ministry has approved an agreement between Telefonica and unions to cut up to 6,500 jobs through 2013 to reduce costs at the Spanish telecoms giant.
     
  • Unemployment aid applications fell for 2nd week
    AP (July 14, 2011)
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, an encouraging sign that the job market may be slowly improving.
     
  • Reid: No Social Security checks without debt deal
    AP (July 14, 2011)
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Echoing President Barack Obama's warning, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says Social Security payments would stop if there is no deal to raise the government's borrowing limit by Aug. 2.
     
  • Study at Samsung says cancers unrelated to work
    AP (July 14, 2011)
    YONGIN, South Korea (AP) - A study commissioned by Samsung into cancers among six of its semiconductor workers found they were unrelated to exposure to chemicals on the job but the electronics giant is not yet releasing the full results.
     
  • Conn. becomes 1st state requiring paid sick time
    AP (July 05, 2011)
    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut has become the first state to require businesses to offer employees paid sick time.
     
  • Toyota hiring 3,000 to 4,000 temp workers in Japan
    AP (June 21, 2011)
    TOKYO (AP) - Toyota said it will hire 3,000 to 4,000 temporary workers in Japan to be ready for a recovery in vehicle production as automakers bounce back from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
     
  • Rules would speed up union elections
    AP (June 21, 2011)
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Labor regulators are proposing sweeping new rules that would dramatically speed up the time frame for union elections, a move that could make it easier for struggling unions to organize new members, and cut the time businesses have to mount anti-union campaigns.
     
  • Decision in Wal-Mart case a blow to class actions
    AP (June 21, 2011)

    WASHINGTON (AP) - Mounting a large-scale bias claim against a huge company will be more difficult in light of a Supreme Court decision that found no convincing proof of discrimination on which to allow a c