The Dominican Republic added 147,456 net jobs over the past year, pushing total employment to 5.27 million in the second quarter of 2026. The increase amounts to 2.9% growth compared with the same quarter of 2025, an impressive headline for one of the region’s steadier labor markets. But underneath the growth is a more persistent…
Americans looking for a new job are confronting a hiring rate near its lowest level since the Great Recession. Americans trying to buy a home are confronting affordability conditions that remain among the worst in decades. Those pressures are usually discussed separately. Together, they are creating something more consequential: an economy where changing your circumstances…
Two former Golden State Warriors front-office employees have sued the organization, alleging racial and gender discrimination, workplace harassment and retaliation. One of the plaintiffs previously served as the franchise’s vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion—placing the team’s internal culture at the center of a public legal dispute that raises uncomfortable questions about how organizations…
The gig economy changed where work happens faster than labor law changed its definition of a workplace. India’s platform economy has turned the road into a workplace. Food couriers, ride-hailing drivers and delivery workers spend their shifts moving through traffic, heat, rain, customer doorsteps and public sidewalks. The protections attached to that work have not…
About 71 million Africans ages 15 to 24 are outside employment, education or training. Among young people who do have jobs, informality and working poverty reveal a second problem: employment is not delivering economic mobility. Roughly 70.9 million young Africans ages 15 to 24 were neither employed nor enrolled in education or training in 2025, according…
The labor market is avoiding mass layoffs, but hiring and quitting are both subdued. That produces a different kind of slowdown: one in which workers keep their jobs because finding a better one has gotten harder. American employers had 7.3 million job openings in July, according to Labor Department data released Tuesday. They hired 5.1…
The advertising giant is shrinking at the same time its technology platform is growing more capable. That combination points to a deeper change in how advertising work gets organized. WPP may eliminate as many as another 1,000 jobs before the end of the year, extending a reduction that has already removed roughly 11,000 positions since…
The stock is off 39% and the turnaround is the reason. Separating a failing company from an expensive repair is the whole analytical problem. Peyton Forte and Janet Freund reported for Bloomberg that Nike shares are tracking toward their worst annual return since 1993, the year Michael Jordan first retired, with the stock down 39% as Jordan-branded merchandise sales slump…
Some of the country’s most lucrative legal jobs are being allocated years in advance. The earlier firms recruit, the more the advantage shifts toward students who arrived already knowing how the system works. The Financial Times reported Thursday that firms including Paul Weiss, Simpson Thacher and Milbank will open applications before Christmas for 2028 summer-associate…
Alix Martichoux reported for Nexstar that the Department of Labor confirmed no national database of WARN Act filings exists, leaving workers to search state by state for notices their own employers are legally required to file. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act compels employers with 100 or more full-time employees to give 60 days…