These Exoskeletons Can Help Prevent Worker Injury

The latest wave of exoskeletons are being tested in automobile factories.

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How to Ease the Pain of Physical Inventory Counts

How to Ease the Pain of Physical Inventory Counts

While physical inventory counts are a necessary evil, they don't need to be such a significant burden.

A hiring sign is seen outside home improvement store in Mount Prospect, Ill., Friday, April 2, 2021.

Rising Job Market Faces Obstacles

Optimistic economists predict that by year's end, the nation could produce as many as 10 million more jobs and restored to pre-pandemic levels.

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Milwaukee Tool Plans Downtown Milwaukee Expansion; Up to 2,000 Jobs

It'd be the latest southern Wisconsin expansion for the iconic tool maker, which announced more than $100 million in investment in late 2019.

US Employers Add 916,000 Jobs in March as Hiring Accelerates

The March increase was nearly double February’s gain of 468,000.

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Pandemic Setting Back Gender Parity in Workforce

Already not expected for a century, gender parity may have to wait dozens more years to come about because of the coronavirus’ impact.

Boston Dynamics’ Stretch Moves 800 Cases Per Hour

Stretch is no slouch.

This Feb. 9, 2021 photo file photo, a car enters an Amazon facility where labor is trying to organize workers in Bessemer, Ala. Organizers are pushing for some 6,000 Amazon workers to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union on the promise it will lead to better working conditions, better pay and more respect. Amazon is pushing back, arguing that it already offers more than twice the minimum wage in Alabama and workers get such benefits as health care, vision and dental insurance without paying union dues.

Amazon Vote May Spark More Union Pushes

What happens inside a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, could have major implications not just for the country's second-largest employer but the labor movement at large.

Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, are hoping to become the retailer’s first unionized employees in the U.S.

What's at Stake in Amazon's Alabama Union Vote

Five questions answered.

Banking district, Frankfurt, Germany, March 29, 2021.

German Industrial Union, Employers Reach Pay Agreement

The deal will give workers a one-time “corona bonus.”

In this Feb. 9 file photo, Michael Foster of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union holds a sign outside an Amazon facility where labor is trying to organize workers in Bessemer, Ala.

Voting on Amazon Union Vote in Alabama Closes Monday

If organizers are successful, it could lead to a chain reaction of other unionization pushes at Amazon facilities.

Waiter Sara Palacios prepares a coffee as she works at La Francachela restaurant in Madrid, Spain, Friday, March 26, 2021. Experimenting with cutting back one workday per week is about to go nationwide in Spain. A 3-year pilot project will be using 50 million euros ($59 million) from the European Union's massive coronavirus recovery fund to compensate companies as they resize their workforce or reorganize production workflows to adapt to a 32-hour working week.

Spain Gives 4-Day Work Week a Try

Arguments in favor of the move also cite benefits for the overall economy.

Alongside Coffee Deal, Smucker to Close Virginia Coffee Plant in 2022

The owner of the Folgers, Jif and Milk-Bone brands will shutter its Suffolk, VA factory next spring in a move that will impact 80 jobs.