The job market has not improved much if at all over the past six months. There’s some chance it may be just starting to improve, yet it’s hard to be very optimistic.
Summing Up the Jobs Report
The job market has not improved much if at all over the past six months. There’s some chance it may be just starting to improve, yet it’s hard to be very optimistic.
Leonhardt and Norris on the Jobs Report
Two Times columnists, David Leonhardt and Floyd Norris, continue a discussion of the economy and examine today’s jobs report.
Norris and Leonhardt on Jobs
Two Times columnists — Floyd Norris and David Leonhardt — talk about the state of the economy and the job market.
“Concerted Activity” Definition Expanded
Last week, in Parexel International, 356 NLRB No. 82 (2011) the National Labor Relations Board expanded its definition of “concerted activity” by holding that an employee who complained to a supervisor about wages and working conditions (and was subsequently terminated) was engaging in protected behavior. The NLRB reversed an Administrative Law Judge’s ruling that her […]
Big-Business Deadbeats
The chief executive of an investment firm argues that small businesses are struggling partly because their big-business customers aren’t paying their bills on time. The executive names some big companies that he says are using this practice.