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Another 1.3 million workers filed for unemployment benefits last week. These states saw the highest number of applications.

Initial jobless claims for the week ended July 10 totaled 1.3 million, slightly higher than the 1.25 million that were expected.

Cirque du Soleil Ok'd an offer to its lenders in a deal that forgives roughly $825 million of Cirque’s $1.2 billion in outstanding loans in exchange for ownership, while leaving its current owners — a group led by billionaire private titans like David Bonderman — empty-handed.

The number of job openings in the U.S. is starting to shrink again as a resurgence of the coronavirus — and business shutdowns — threatens to derail the nation's gradual economic recovery.

Airlines cannot lay off employees before Oct. 1, under the terms agreed upon when accepting the aid package from the federal government.

Economists surveyed by Refinitiv forecast 1.25 million new claims.

Many salon owners feel like they're being unfairly punished. They said they have ample training on sanitizing procedures and don't understand why they're lumped in with other businesses.

A DOJ lawyer says executives must prove they boosted earnings

ViacomCBS and Amazon have both announced that their employees will continue to work remotely through January as coronavirus cases surge across the country.

In less than two weeks, the extra $600 a week in unemployment benefits will expire and the typical check, which varies by state, will return to below $400 per week. 

Newsroom job cuts are at the highest level since the firm started tracking them in 2003

JC Penney says it will close an additional 152 stores and cut 1,000 jobs as it tries to fight its way out from under bankruptcy protection.

With coronavirus-fueled digital ordering growth, Chipotle plans to increase its hiring efforts and expand its drive-thru concept called Chipotlane.