The rule would prohibit companies from limiting their employees’ ability to work for rivals, a change that could increase competition and boost wages.
Category: Wages and Salaries
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David Zaslav Receives $50 Million for Leading Struggling Warner Bros. Discovery
The chief executive’s 2023 pay package rose 26 percent from the year before, while the company’s losses totaled $3 billion.
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VW Workers in Tennessee Start Vote on U.A.W., Testing Union Ambitions
The United Automobile Workers hopes contract gains at the Big Three carmakers will provide momentum in a broad effort to organize nonunion plants.
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Guarding Royal Families for $1,000 a Day: Inside Executive Protection Jobs
How three women trained to work in jobs protecting prominent families and ultra-high-net-worth individuals.
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Who Will Pay for the Baltimore Bridge Collapse?
Disputes over liability and the cost of claims could take years for insurers to resolve and result in billions of dollars in payouts.
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How One Tech Skeptic Decided AI Might Benefit the Middle Class
David Autor, an M.I.T. economist and tech contrarian, argues that A.I. is fundamentally different from past waves of computerization.
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California $20 Fast-Food Minimum Wage Is Coming April 1
The nation’s highest state minimum wage for fast-food workers takes effect on Monday. Owners and employees are sizing up the potential impact.
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‘Strike Madness’ Hits Germany While Its Economy Stumbles
A wave of strikes by German workers, feeling the sting of inflation and stagnant growth, is the latest sign of the bleak outlook for Europe’s economic powerhouse.
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U.F.C. Settles Antitrust Suit With Fighters for $335 Million
The organization’s parent company admitted no wrongdoing but agreed to pay the fighters, who had accused it of suppressing their pay.
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Japan Raises Interest Rates for First Time in 17 Years
Higher inflation and rising wages suggest that the country’s economy can grow without such aggressive stimulus from the central bank.
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U.S. employers added 275,000 jobs last month.
Economists are trying to gauge whether last year’s forecasts of a slowing labor market were mistaken or simply premature.