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Costco will raise its minimum wage to $16 an hour starting next week, CEO Craig Jelinek said.

President Biden's interior secretary nominee, Democratic New Mexico Rep. Debra Haaland, on Wednesday conceded that shutting down the Dakota Access Pipeline would cost jobs.

The number of Americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits remained elevated last week, Labor Department figures show.

With millions around the country calling for a $15 minimum wage, small business owners fear their businesses will be crippled while minimum wage workers have hope for better days ahead.

Some chains including Kroger Co. say they will close some stores in areas with new wage mandates, while others say they are boosting food prices or may cut back on services like checkouts.

Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina on Wednesday reintroduced the National Right to Work Act.

Americans work about 135 more hours than the average worker in Japan, about 241 more than any worker in the U.K. and 393 more than a worker in Germany, according to WalletHub estimates.

Well-paying blue-collar jobs skyrocketed to numbers not seen since the start of the coronavirus pandemic due to demand for consumer goods, according to EmployBridge workforce analyst Joanie Bily.

Utah has an estimated budget surplus of $1.5 billion, even after a year of battling the COVID-19 pandemic that has hurt state tax revenues.

Steak 'n Shake Inc. sued lender Fortress Investment Group LLC after the burger chain paid off debt coming due to avoid bankruptcy, accusing Fortress of misusing confidential information to mount a takeover bid.

FOX Business’ Grady Trimble talks with an executive from one of the few companies that manufactures solar panels in the U.S. about competing with China.

America’s blue-collar workforce is filled with signs of a strengthening job market.

The company's latest feature builds upon its commitment to leveraging "its product and resources to help achieve equity in and out of the workplace," Glassdoor said.

The Transportation Security Administration announced it is hiring screening officers for 430 U.S. airports.

Real-estate brokerage Redfin Corp. has agreed to buy apartment search site operator RentPath Holdings Inc. out of bankruptcy for $608 million, in a deal that would combine operators of leading U.S. property listing websites for purchasing and renting a home.