General Labor Issues

Public-health nurse Becky Graham brought a suitcase of winter clothes from Minnesota to a springtime conference in Atlanta where it was 80 degrees.It wasn’t a crazy idea. Ms. Graham was trying to prepare for one of the worst excesses of modern life—meeting rooms air-conditioned to Arctic levels. C-O-L-D…

The Cleveland Fed district reported a large grocery chain said customers are taking aggressive steps to save. Photo: nicholas kamm/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images…

Demand for workers remained robust in the spring, with April job openings and the number of times workers quit their jobs decreasing from their record highs the prior month.The Labor Department on Wednesday said there were a seasonally adjusted 11.4 million job openings in April, a decrease from an upwardly revised record high of 11.9 million openings reached the prior month. The number of times workers quit their jobs fell slightly to 4.4 million. Both are signs the labor market remains unusually tight. Demand for…

It isn’t the office that workers heading into the city despise. It’s the commute.The Covid-19 pandemic led to a surge in remote work, emptying out office towers as more people worked from home. Cities with longer commutes have taken the biggest economic hit, while urban areas where people live closer to work have a higher return-to-office rate, according to The Wall Street Journal’s analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data and building-access company Kastle Systems. Recent polling of office workers supports the analysis. In a…

In Phoenix, less than half of the public pools are opening because the city can’t hire enough lifeguards, despite offering a $2,500 incentive payment. Trolley lines in coastal Maine that service beaches are shutting down for the summer due to a dearth of drivers. Across the country, restaurants in tourist destinations are operating on limited hours because they don’t have enough staff to stay open longer. The shortages push up labor costs, adding to inflationary pressure on items including airfares and beach…

The unemployment rate in 17 states concentrated in the Midwest, South and Mountain West reached a record low in April, a sign of an unusually tight labor market.The milestone in those states marks a sharp reversal from the spring of 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic drove unemployment to record highs in 15 of those states, according to Labor Department data tracing back to 1976. Two additional states—Oklahoma and Arkansas—hit record low unemployment rates earlier this year.…

Chattanooga, Tenn., one of the first places in the nation to install a citywide fiber-optic gigabit-speed internet cable, boomed during the pandemic thanks to an influx of remote workers and venture capital-backed startups, its mayor said. Tim Kelly, a businessman and startup founder who was inaugurated in April of last year, said the city received approximately 10,000 new residents between March 2020 and August 2021, according to a survey of people who initiated electric service at that…

Apple Inc. AAPL 0.11% is boosting pay for workers amid rising inflation, a tight labor market and unionization pushes among hourly store employees. The iPhone maker on Wednesday told employees in an email that the company is increasing its overall compensation budget. Starting pay for hourly workers in the U.S. will rise to $22 an hour, or higher based upon the market, a 45% increase from 2018. Starting salaries in the U.S. are also…

New applications for unemployment benefits rose for the third week in a row, amid separate signs that the U.S. labor market remains unusually tight.Initial jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, increased by 21,000 to a seasonally adjusted 218,000 last week from the previous week’s revised level of 197,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. Despite the recent rise, claims remain historically low with last week’s figure matching the 2019 average ahead of the Covid-19 pandemic. New applications for unemployment benefits…

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