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Delta cancels its order for new Boeing 737-900ERs, cost the manufacturer at least $4 billion at list prices.
If Thanksgiving is a day on which people should be at home with their families, many large retailers have ignored that. The Thanksgiving weekend is too precious a period to have stores closed.
United Auto Workers union members approved a new labor contract with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. (NYSE: FCAU) after rejecting it once. The union’s membership at both Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) and...
If McDonald's continues to listen to consumers’ desires, perhaps its profits will continue to rise, even though it will be paying out higher salaries.
Research suggest that job stress contributes to the amount of life lost on the job and varies in amount by such factors as race, education level and gender.
ThinkstockOut of 158.19 million U.S. wage earners in 2014, 134 received cash compensation of at least $50 million. The total number of gazillionaires rose from 110 in 2013, and none of the...
While most of the large brick-and-mortar companies have said they will add tens of thousands of jobs for the holiday season, e-commerce giant Amazon.com will add 100,000.
Apparently, Americans are worried enough about their jobs that many go to work sick. Better to be sick than out of a job.
Advocates of a higher minimum have argued that low-paid workers must have pay that puts them above the poverty line. Companies like McDonald's would be badly bloodied by that decision.
In its statement Wednesday, Wal-Mart said it expects an impact of $1.5 billion on operating income in fiscal year 2017 related to the promised wage hike to $10 an hour.
Pickup truck sales in the United States posted a year-over-year gain in September for two of the Detroit Three automakers.
GameStop will add 28,000 holiday workers for 2015, evidence that its business model is thriving.
A new report from the Center for Popular Democracy shows that Starbucks continues to treat many of its employees badly.
In a brief statement published Tuesday, Chinese news agency Xinhua said that a "group of Chinese companies" has signed an agreement to buy 300 Boeing aircraft.
Demands for a wage of $15 an hour and full-time work will again be the focus of job actions by a worker group organized to push for the changes at Wal-Mart.