General Labor Issues

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is digging in against protesters who this week shut down most operations at the Port of Oakland, saying truckers “should focus on supporting this transition” to a new employment…

Real-estate developers are ramping up new office projects in Silicon Valley, confident that big technology companies will expand their workplaces and capitalize on the area’s new transportation and housing initiatives.In San Jose, Calif.,…

Rarely has such a robust labor market been so thoroughly scoured for signs of impending doom. Does this mean you should lower your salary expectations the next time you are up for a promotion or a new job? Or settle for a job with more…

Rising interest rates and growing recession fears are compounding the woes of office landlords grappling with the spread of remote work.An index tracking the shares of publicly traded office owners was down 29% over the first two quarters,…

Elon Musk is expected to confirm his desire to own Twitter Inc. TWTR 2.07% when he speaks to the social-media company’s employees on…

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…

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.…

Some of the economy’s most in-demand employees are about to find out how much power they have over where and how they work. After months of return-to-work starts and stops, many tech companies, including Alphabet…

Meet the class of 2022. They are the most in-demand college graduates to enter the job market in years. They have the expectations to match.Grads are seeking more money and flexibility and more specifics about likely assignments than…

West Coast dockworkers and cargo-handling companies are due this week to begin contract negotiations that carry high stakes for an American economy that has been wracked by supply-chain disruptions. The labor talks cover about 22,400…