Employment

As the pandemic stretched on, some employees moved hundreds of miles from the offices they're supposed to return to once it's safe. Will their bosses make them come back?

After both of Delaware’s Democratic U.S. senators voted against adding a $15 minimum wage measure to the stimulus, local advocates are renewing their push.

Millions who lost jobs at the beginning of the pandemic are still out of the labor force, making up levels not seen since the Great Recession.

The announcement comes as new unemployment claims in N.J. are at their lowest levels since the pandemic began.

Risk ripples outwards. A family member cohabitating with an essential worker has a 17% greater chance of testing positive. Other roommates face a 38% increase.

Amid surging job loss due to COVID-19, a no-bid contract led to bungled unemployment payments to people who weren’t given timely information about errors.

As we continue our series on how the pandemic has reshaped work in America, we'll discuss joblessness and unemployment over the course of the pandemic.

New data show that the number of new SSI awards given in January was the lowest on record — but it wasn't because there were fewer people in need of the benefits.

A leader of Delaware’s chapter in the national movement says having Joe Biden in the White House can help make his state a model for America.

The coalition argues that schools can be reopened safely this month, but teachers must heed the district’s call to return in order to begin that process.

Friday's figures reflect a faltering job market, slowed by a pandemic that is still causing consumers to avoid traveling, shopping and dining out.

The union represents the township’s sanitation workers and animal control, parking enforcement, and other non-first responder uniformed employees.

The positions are just a sliver of SEPTA’s 9,400-strong workforce, but the handful of part-timers collectively cost the agency about $1 million a year.

The president told House Democrats he would not back down from providing $1,400 payments in the package, but suggests checks could be targeted, a proposal Republicans pushed.

Pandemic unemployment benefits are a lifeline for over 400,000 in Pa. who don’t qualify for traditional unemployment. But payments stalled this year and people are struggling.