Amid the gloom of the federal government shutdown and a worsening private-sector job market, there was one bit of good news for workers last week: California has banned “stay or pay” contracts that ...

One of the world’s largest banks, France’s BNP Paribas, has faced a historic verdict from a US jury that ruled that the bank aided the Sudanese government in committing genocide. The verdict is based ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. (WRBL) — Telecommunications company Verizon is offering payment relief for military members and federal employees during the government shutdown. Verizon customers who are members of ...

Employees at the Kona and Hilo Kaiser Permanente clinics will be among the tens of thousands of registered nurses and health care professionals across Hawai‘i and California to hit the picket line ...

Rhode Island is considering limiting access to popular weight-loss drugs for state workers and Medicaid enrollees to control rising costs. The cost of GLP-1 medications, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. On Friday, the Trump administration began laying off ...

OGDEN — The Internal Revenue Service announced on Wednesday it would place about half of its employees on unpaid leave due to the government shutdown. The news set off a flurry of confusion at one of ...

Past studies have underplayed the degree of pay cut workers would accept, according to a Harvard-Brown-UCLA study. We’re five years past the pandemic, but the remote work debate rages on. A new study ...

Federal workers who are either furloughed or required to keep working without pay during the ongoing U.S. government shutdown express concern about the impact on their finances, their colleagues and ...