Samantha Nolan

Most small businesses in the United States remained cautious about hiring new employees during the past three months, according to a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business.

A Planned Parenthood clinic manager has been fired for behavior captured on an undercover video made by an anti-abortion group, a Planned Parenthood spokesman said on Wednesday.

New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits dropped more than expected last week, a government report showed on Thursday, pointing to continued gradual improvement in the labor market.

A pawnbroker running a book club to retain staff? Sounds like fiction, but that's one of the strategies employed by entrepreneur John Thedford to help keep his employees happy.

Newly trained female doctors in the United States make nearly $17,000 less than their male counterparts, even though women increasingly are choosing careers in higher-paying medical specialties, U.S. researchers

New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits fell sharply last week while nonfarm productivity in the fourth quarter was stronger than expected, confirmation the economic recovery was strengthening.

Major U.S. retailers shrugged off the snowiest January in six years to post sales that blew past analyst expectations, easing concerns that consumers were all spent out after the holidays.

You may not be able to change your bad boss, but there are ways to at least tilt the dynamic in your favor, according to says Harvard Business Review.

South Africa's trade union Solidarity said on Wednesday workers at diversified miner Exxaro (EXXJ.J) could strike before mid-2011 over benefits and planned retrenchments.

Tackling Spain's dramatic unemployment rate is a priority for the country, said Spain's Secretary of State for the Economy at an investor presentation in London on Wednesday.

Hungary's government will work to boost employment levels from 55 percent quickly, including with unorthodox measures, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Wednesday. Orban told a news conference the changes are needed

Toyota Motor Co (7203.T) said on Tuesday that it had offered buyout packages in a bid to reduce the management staff at its U.S. sales headquarters in Torrance, California.

U.S. private employers added more jobs than expected in January, underscoring views the employment picture is slowly improving. The private sector added 187,000 jobs in January compared with a downwardly revised

U.S. unemployment will stay high for some time, in part because changes in the labor market have made it tougher for those out of work to find jobs, a Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland economist said on Monday.

Corinthian Colleges (COCO.O) said it will cut about 4 percent of its workforce and increase tuition fees as it expects new student enrollment to fall further amid a tough regulatory environment.

Unemployment, poverty and social injustice are the top global concerns and most people think their country is heading in the wrong direction, according to a new poll.

The world economy is beset by problems such as high unemployment and rising prices which could fuel trade protectionism and even lead to war within nations, the head of the International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday.

Joblessness in Germany fell more than expected in January to leave the unemployment rate at its lowest level since March 1992, data showed, fuelling hopes that consumer spending will help underpin the country's economic

Borrowing by small businesses jumped for a fifth straight month in December, data released by PayNet Inc on Tuesday showed, a fresh sign that the U.S. economic recovery is gaining ground.

Despite never having read a romance novel, Melissa Heidrich had always thought about making video games based off the popular literary genre. A chance encounter at a recent high school reunion with former classmate

Chrysler Group LLC plans to temporarily shut down its plant in Windsor, Ontario next week due to a shortage of parts, a spokeswoman said on Friday. The plant, which is expected to reopen on February 7

The White House will announce an effort on Monday to encourage job-creating start-up businesses in hopes of reducing the country's stubbornly high unemployment rate.

A British airport has introduced holograms of real-life customer service staff to help speed up security queues. The images of Manchester airport employees John Walsh and Julie Caper were created using the same technology

Canada's economy has not yet recovered all the jobs lost during the recession, according to data revisions that paint a slightly less upbeat picture of the jobs market than did the original estimates.

The number of U.S. companies filing for bankruptcy has plunged and financing is easier to get, but restructuring experts see plenty of trouble ahead in corporate America.

U.S. employment costs rose just 0.4 percent in the fourth quarter, Labor Department data showed on Friday, as a bleak jobs market continued to put pressure on worker pay and benefits.

Among the millions crowding China's railways stations and airports in the annual Lunar New Year trek home are many workers who won't be coming back to their jobs in the workshop of the world.

Steven met me at an event I facilitated, an event he attended in order to learn how to craft an effective résumé. After listening to my presentation and further reflecting on how he was going to present

Poverty and unemployment reared their heads at the World Economic Forum on Thursday, with speakers urging the elite audience to bridge a growing gap between booming multinationals and the jobless poor.