Tag: Hiring and Promotion

JOLTS Report Shows U.S. Job Openings Steady in September

Why It Matters: The Fed looks for signs of a soft landing. The Federal Reserve closely monitors job openings to understand whether the economy is running too hot. Since March 2022, the Fed has tried to fight inflation by raising interest rates to their highest level since 2001. The Fed has remained committed to hitting […]

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Federal Firefighters Face Steep Pay Cuts

Thousands of federal firefighters could face substantial pay cuts in the coming weeks, potentially hampering the country’s ability to respond to wildfires as they have grown more severe. Federal wild-land firefighters received a temporary boost to their paychecks last year, which was meant to help strained agencies offer more competitive wages to recruit and retain […]

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Retailers’ Seasonal Hiring Plans Signal a Cooling Labor Market

As the most important selling season for retailers approaches, job applicants may feel a chill. Macy’s and Dick’s Sporting Goods plan to hire fewer seasonal workers after a surge in the past two years, when shoppers thronged to stores after pandemic lockdowns and employers struggled to keep up. Many retailers have dropped the incentives they […]

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Strong U.S. Job Growth Shows Economy Is Defying Challenges

In a sign of continued economic stamina, American payrolls grew by 336,000 in September on a seasonally adjusted basis, the Labor Department said on Friday. The increase, almost double what economists had forecast, confirmed the labor market’s vitality and the overall hardiness of an economy facing challenges from a variety of forces. It was the […]

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Stocks Slip as Strong Jobs Report Pushes Bond Yields Higher

Markets shuddered on Friday after a fresh report on hiring pointed to a much stronger labor market than economists had expected, igniting concerns among investors that the Federal Reserve would need to clamp down on the economy more forcefully as it battles to bring inflation under control. The Labor Department reported that employers added 336,000 […]

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Why the Jobs Report Might be Pivotal for a Jittery Stock Market

Stocks are sliding, government bond yields are soaring, and investors are reacting strongly to incremental economic information, parsing it for even the slightest hints about the path ahead. . Such sensitivity among investors has left markets jittery — veering between fears that the economy is running too hot and worries about a downturn so sharp […]

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Why Are Investors So Jittery?

Stocks are sliding, government bond yields are soaring, and investors are reacting strongly to scraps of economic information that they typically ignore. In other words, the markets are jittery — veering between fears that the economy is running too hot and worries about a downturn so sharp that the country tumbles into recession. It’s an […]

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Women Could Fill Truck Driver Jobs. Companies Won’t Let Them.

The trucking industry has complained for years that there is a dire shortage of workers willing to drive big rigs. But some women say many trucking companies have made it effectively impossible for them to get those jobs. Trucking companies often refuse to hire women if the businesses do not have women available to train […]

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Striking U.A.W. Workers’ Views p Industry Vary by Generation

On Friday morning just before 10, Steve Kellums, 54, and his son Keegan, 24, sat side by side in the older man’s living room in Westland, Mich., a short drive from the Ford Motor assembly plant where they both work. One week into the strike by 3,300 workers at the plant, they were anxiously awaiting […]

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Women in the N.F.L. Find Support on a Group Text and Through Mentoring

A decade before Catherine Raîche became the current highest-ranking female executive with an N.F.L. team, she was a scout for the Canadian Football League. Back then, it was still uncommon for a woman to hold a job evaluating football players, a role that required Raîche to travel the country looking for talent. In a few […]

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How Ben Sasse Became a Combatant in Florida’s Education Wars

Sasse’s words sometimes tumble out in a kind of techno-futurist patois that can be hard to follow. In response to a question about his perceived invisibility on campus, he veered off into something about the future of pedagogy. “And that requires us to unbundle cohorting, community and synchronicity from co-localities,” he said. Later, he added, […]

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Federal Officials Propose New Nursing Home Standards to Increase Staffing

The nation’s most thinly staffed nursing homes would be required to hire more workers under new rules proposed on Friday by the Biden administration, the greatest change to federal nursing home regulations in three decades. The proposed standard was prompted by the industry’s troubled performance earlier in the coronavirus pandemic, when 200,000 nursing home residents […]

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