Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Washington dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 7,200 in the week ending January 11, down from 10,729 the week before, the Labor Department said.

More than 100 farmworkers and their supporters traveled to Olympia from the state’s rural counties Tuesday to lobby lawmakers for more protections against unfair labor practices.

U.S. President Donald Trump has installed new acting heads at three key federal labor agencies, the first step in what is expected to be a major overhaul of Biden-era policies.

President Donald Trump began his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient U.S. government priorities.

Federal employees and others in the capital have grown attached to work-from-home arrangements. But hybrid work may disappear in the second Trump era.

The General used Bureau of Labor Statistics to examine the counties with the most car repair shops in Washington.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has banned imports from another tranche of companies over alleged human rights abuses involving the Uyghurs in China, targeting more than 30 textile, mining and solar entities, a federal government notice published on Tuesday said.

(AP) — The problem of kids working in dangerous slaughterhouses continues to be a concern as the Labor Department announced ... 13 meatpacking plants in eight states on overnight shifts ...

Agribusiness giants Purdue Farms and JBS Foods, along with a slaughterhouse cleaning company, paid about $8.4 millions in fines for having underaged workers in dangerous jobs.

President Donald Trump fired 18 of the federal government’s 73 inspectors general, sending a clear message to federal government employees.

By keeping an eye out for waste and fraud, they make efficiency possible.

At the Federal Reserve’s first meeting in 2025, consumers are going to want what Fed Chair Jerome Powell simply can’t give them: An answer to how much longer interest rates are going to stay high.