Smithfield Foods has been fined $13,494 for its failure to mitigate worker exposure to the coronavirus, the first such meatpacking company sanction imposed by OSHA during the pandemic.

The IRS is launching an effort to crack down on 1,600 millionaires and 75 large business partnerships that owe hundreds of millions of dollars in past due taxes.

President Joe Biden is warning voters unhappy with soaring inflation and his stalled domestic agenda against turning power over to “ultra-MAGA” Republicans in the midterm elections.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday that high inflation is a serious threat to the Fed’s goal of helping put more Americans back to work, and said the Fed will raise rates more than it...

Mohegan Chief Marilynn “Lynn” Malerba was sworn in Monday, becoming the nation’s first Native American to serve as U.S. Treasurer.

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. has asked a U.S. court to keep OSHA from obtaining documents related to employee reports of illness, Covid-19 test results, and interviews with its South Dakota plant...

Climate change is projected to triple or quadruple by 2050 the number of days outdoor workers must endure extremely high temperatures, according to a report released Tuesday.

Sisters seek details about their grandfather’s Chicago baseball team, and his killing by a white police officer in 1925.

President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday directing government departments and agencies to provide more economic aid to Americans.

Liisa Luick worked through the height of the Covid-19 pandemic lock down as a sales associate in the men’s department at the Macy’s department store in Lynnwood, Wash. Throughout that time she’s...

The Russian ruble has bounced back to almost its full value since before the West imposed economic sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

A curious toddler on Tuesday earned the title of one of the tiniest White House intruders after he squeezed through the metal fencing on the north side of the executive mansion.

The White House has announced a multi-agency initiative to protect U.S. workers, as well as city-dwelling children, senior citizens and the poor, from the effects of record high temperatures.

The AFL-CIO filed a lawsuit to ask a federal court to compel the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to issue an emergency temporary standard to protect workers from the novel coronavirus.

Announcing tough sanctions against Russian oligarchs over the war in Ukraine was step one. Now the U.S. and its allies are creating new teams to act on their vow to “seize and freeze” the giant...

The budget reconciliation measure for labor that House Democrats will begin to mark up Thursday would make employee misclassification a labor law violation and outlaw class-action waivers in workpl...

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Tens of millions of small U.S. companies will soon be required to submit details on their owners and others who benefit from them.

State workplace safety officials are investigating conditions at Foster Farms facility in Merced County town of Livingston.

John Scott conveyed his inheritance to himself and his girlfriend Tina Hemingway, and created a "no cheating provision." Then she got pregnant by another man.

A federal judge in Minnesota has thrown out a U.S. Department of Agriculture rule that sped up swine slaughter line speeds for some companies.

OSHA has issued a federal rule mandating Covid-19 vaccinations or at least weekly testing for workers at U.S. companies with 100 or more employees.