Contractors and other businesses have a month to brace themselves for a federal rule that will jack OSHA penalty amounts up by 78 percent.

A Texas judge has placed a temporary injunction on an Obama Administration rule that, starting next month, would have required contractors and other employers to disclose the identities of outside consultants who might have been hired to help disrupt union organizing and other labor-related activities.

The federal government is trying to help inmates improve their job prospects before getting released from local jails, through a $10 million program announced Thursday.

The U.S. Labor Department is seeking to recover back pay and damages for more than 100 employees in a lawsuit against four El Azteca restaurants in the Fox Valley of Wisconsin.

For years, employers have struggled with correctly classifying workers as employees or independent contractors.

The U.S. Department of Labor has issued a new final rule governing the H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker program that the agency said will give U.S. workers greater protections and job access.

The American Bar Association and other groups have raised concerns over a proposed Labor Department rule that would revise the interpretation of ""advice"" with respect to the persuader reporting requirements of Section 203 of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act.