Employment

With rising unemployment and higher energy costs, Garden State businesses are expressing concern about what the new year has in store for them.

With a historically bad job market, phantom job listings and a loss of entry-level positions due to AI, young Philadelphians are sounding the alarm.

In the event of a strike, students will not be marked late due to “SEPTA-related travel challenges,” Superintendent Watlington said Sunday.

Union leaders say they are seeking modest raises, pension increases, changes to working conditions and health care improvements.

The project will see a monument in each of the state’s three regions tell stories of migrants' roles in the Garden State labor force.

For the last three months, principals and other school administrators were working without a new contract.

Karen Potratz, a school psychologist at Chestnutwold Elementary School, will serve as interim president of the Haverford Township Education Association.

Weiss has ties to the Philly region and had been the head of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The decision is meant to reduce operating costs as the agency works to remake its entire portfolio of affordable units.

SNAP food benefits are flowing again after a pause during the federal government shutdown. But the clock is about to start on a policy that imposes work requirements.

Mayor Parker says the old contracting and procurement policies violate court rulings. The city rewrote them into small business preferences instead of aspirational guidelines.

Parent company Tower Health will lay off 131 people at Pottstown Hospital by January and close the facility’s ICU, cancer center and endoscopy suite.

Union leaders say the authorization is meant to increase pressure at the bargaining table, not to begin a strike immediately.

Starbucks Workers United says the walkout will impact stores in 45 cities, including New York, Philadelphia, Minneapolis and Dallas.

The legislation would require employers to provide reasonable accommodations for disruptive symptoms of menstruation and menopause.